Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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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