Country size comparison
Japan
compared to
Laos
Japan is about 1.6 times bigger than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 60% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (116.5 million more people live in Japan).
We have positioned the outline of Laos near the middle of Japan.
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This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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