Country size comparison

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Laos is about 795 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 79,363% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (7.4 million more people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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