Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 31 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 3,021% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (61.7 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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