Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 13 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 7.52% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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