Country size comparison

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Laos is about 1.9 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 52.59% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (2.7 million fewer people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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