Country size comparison

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Laos is about 401 times bigger than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 40,048% larger than Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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