Country size comparison

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China is about 41 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 3,953% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from China to Laos · UN DESA 2020
14,338 people born in China live in Laos.
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