Country size comparison

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Swaziland is about 1.8 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Swaziland is approximately 17,364 sq km, making Swaziland 57.2% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Swaziland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Swaziland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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