Country size comparison

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Arkansas is about 1.8 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, making Arkansas 56.95% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.8 million fewer people live in Arkansas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Arkansas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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