Country size comparison

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Laos is about 5 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 19.09% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (13.0 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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