Country size comparison

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Laos is about 12 times smaller than Argentina.

Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 8.52% the size of Argentina. Meanwhile, the population of Argentina is ~46.2 million people (38.5 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Argentina vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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