Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 12 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 8.03% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (122.0 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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