Country size comparison

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Laos is about 33 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 3.06% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~27.6 million people (19.7 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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