Country size comparison

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Laos is about 8,869 times bigger than Sydney.

Sydney is approximately 27 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 886,791% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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