Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.7 times bigger than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 71% larger than Laos.
Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people
(29.5 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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