Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 11 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 1,025% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (1.2 million more people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
El Salvador
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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