Country size comparison

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New York is about 4 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 303% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (17.2 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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