Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 3.4 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km,
while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making
Lesotho 29.6% the size of Virginia.
Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people
(5.8 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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