Country size comparison

compared to

Belgium is about 8 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 12.89% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.1 million more people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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