Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 31 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 3.2% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (61.7 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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