Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 21 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 4.76% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (10.2 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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