Country size comparison

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Laos is about 1.9 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 54.02% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (32.7 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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