Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 9 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 10.69% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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