Country size comparison
Laos
compared to
Afghanistan
Laos is about 2.8 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 36.31% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (30.6 million fewer people live in Laos).
We have positioned the outline of Afghanistan near the middle of Laos.
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This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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