Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 31 times smaller than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 3.18% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.4 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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