Country size comparison

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Guatemala is about 2.2 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, making Guatemala 45.98% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (10.0 million more people live in Guatemala).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Guatemala uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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