Country size comparison

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Indonesia is about 8 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, making Indonesia 704% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.9 million people (277.8 million more people live in Indonesia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Indonesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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