Country size comparison

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Laos is about 4.7 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 21.44% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (105.9 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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