Country size comparison
compared to
Washington is about 1.4 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 72.78% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (1.0 million fewer people live in Washington).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Washington
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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