Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 9 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 11.41% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (1.5 million more people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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