Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 214 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.47% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (473,007 fewer people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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