Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 15 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 6.56% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (7.4 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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