Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 1.9 times bigger than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 85% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (32.7 million more people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Iraq
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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