Country size comparison

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Laos is about 5 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 19.42% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (49.8 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Laos to South Africa · UN DESA 2020
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