Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 563 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 0.18% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (139.8 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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