Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 1.9 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 51.16% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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