Country size comparison

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New Zealand is about 9 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 786% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (2.9 million more people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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