Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 42 times smaller than Niger.

Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 2.4% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (22.3 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of Niger vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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