Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 34 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 2.95% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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