Country size comparison

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Bhutan is about 6 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 16.21% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (6.9 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Bhutan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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