Country size comparison

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Colombia is about 4.8 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 381% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (41.3 million more people live in Colombia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Colombia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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