Country size comparison

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Djibouti is about 10 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 9.8% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (6.8 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Djibouti uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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