Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is around the same size as New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 88.08% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (2.7 million more people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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