Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 30 times smaller than Nigeria.

Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 3.29% the size of Nigeria. Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~225.1 million people (222.9 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nigeria vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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