Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 8 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 12.82% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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