Country size comparison

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Minnesota is around the same size as Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, making Minnesota 87.07% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.9 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Minnesota).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Minnesota uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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