Country size comparison

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New York is about 1.9 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 51.64% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (11.6 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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