Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 2.4 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 42.31% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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