Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 3.9 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 290% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (18.6 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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