Country size comparison
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Laos is about 2.5 times smaller than Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 40.34% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (20.4 million fewer people live in Laos).
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