Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 21 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 2,001% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (10.2 million more people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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