Country size comparison

compared to

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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