Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 3 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 204% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (3.1 million more people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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