Country size comparison

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Mississippi is about 1.9 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 51.3% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.8 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Mississippi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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