Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 6 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 17.54% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (9.7 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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