Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 30 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 2,943% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (222.9 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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