Country size comparison

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Mali is about 5 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 424% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (13.0 million more people live in Mali).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Mali uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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