Country size comparison

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Peru is about 42 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 4,134% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (30.1 million more people live in Peru).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Peru uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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