Country size comparison

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New Jersey is about 12 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 8.11% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (1.0 million more people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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