Country size comparison

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Laos is about 5 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 18.42% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (24.5 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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