Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 1.6 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 62.66% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (116.5 million fewer people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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