Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 102 times smaller than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.98% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Lesotho
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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