Country size comparison

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Laos is about 2.9 times smaller than Burma.

Burma is approximately 676,578 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 35.0% the size of Burma. Meanwhile, the population of Burma is ~57.5 million people (49.8 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Burma vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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