Country size comparison

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Laos is about 4.8 times smaller than Colombia.

Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 20.79% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (41.3 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colombia vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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