Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 26 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 3.84% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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