Country size comparison

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Laos is about 1.6 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 64% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (4.7 million more people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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