Country size comparison

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Russia is about 563 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 56,228% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (139.8 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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