Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 3.4 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 238% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (5.8 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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