Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 795 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.13% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.9 million people (7.3 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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