Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 9 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 815% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.9 million people (7.8 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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