Country size comparison

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Laos is about 1.4 times smaller than Norway.

Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 73.13% the size of Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (2.2 million more people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Norway vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Laos to Norway · OECD 2023
4 people moved from Laos to Norway.
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