Country size comparison

compared to

Houston is about 143 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 0.7% the size of Laos.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Houston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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