Country size comparison

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Laos is around the same size as Ghana.

Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 99.27% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (25.4 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ghana vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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