Country size comparison

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Chad is about 5 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, making Chad 442% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (10.2 million more people live in Chad).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Chad uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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