Country size comparison

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Laos is around the same size as Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 94.53% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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