Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 3.7 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 27.28% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (5.9 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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