Country size comparison

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Algeria is about 10 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 906% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (36.4 million more people live in Algeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Algeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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