Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 15 times bigger than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,425% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (7.4 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
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