Country size comparison

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Turkmenistan is about 2.1 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 106% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Turkmenistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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