Country size comparison

 Lesotho
compared to
 South Africa

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). We have positioned the outline of South Africa near the middle of Lesotho.
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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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