Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 15 times bigger than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,425% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (7.4 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Lesotho
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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