Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 2 times bigger than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 104% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
Pennsylvania
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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