Country size comparison

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Kenya is about 2.5 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, making Kenya 145% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (48.1 million more people live in Kenya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Kenya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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