Country size comparison
compared to
Laos is about 7 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km,
while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making
Laos 14.37% the size of Iran.
Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people
(79.0 million fewer people live in Laos).
This to-scale comparison of
Iran
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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