Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 1.2 times smaller than Taiwan.

Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 84.37% the size of Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.6 million people (21.4 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Taiwan vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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