Country size comparison

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Laos is about 3.8 times bigger than Svalbard.

Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 282% larger than Svalbard. Meanwhile, the population of Svalbard is ~2,926 people (7.7 million more people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of Svalbard vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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