Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 13 times smaller than Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 7.77% the size of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~15.1 million people (12.9 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zimbabwe vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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