Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is around the same size as Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 89.02% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (7.1 million more people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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