Country size comparison

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Mauritius is about 15 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, making Mauritius 6.72% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (885,748 fewer people live in Mauritius).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Mauritius uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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