Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 1.6 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 64% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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