Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 72 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 1.38% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (134.3 million fewer people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
Russia
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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