Country size comparison
compared to
Vanuatu is about 19 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 5.15% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (7.4 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Vanuatu
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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