Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 40 times bigger than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km,
while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making
South Africa 3,916% larger than Lesotho.
Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people
(55.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Lesotho
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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