Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 42 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 2.41% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (329.6 million fewer people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
United States
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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