Country size comparison
compared to
Sao Tome and Principe is about 246 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.41% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (7.5 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Sao Tome and Principe
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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