Country size comparison

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Kansas is around the same size as Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, making Kansas 89.48% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Kansas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Kansas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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