Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 5 times bigger than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 415% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (49.8 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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