Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 25 times smaller than Zambia.

Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 4.03% the size of Zambia. Meanwhile, the population of Zambia is ~19.6 million people (17.4 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zambia vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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