Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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