Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 40 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 2.49% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (55.3 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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