Country size comparison

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Laos is about 84 times bigger than Samoa.

Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 8,265% larger than Samoa. Meanwhile, the population of Samoa is ~219,306 people (7.7 million more people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Samoa vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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