Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 1.4 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 36% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (6.3 million more people live in Switzerland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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