Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.6 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 61.11% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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