Country size comparison

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Laos is about 2.7 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 37.14% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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