Country size comparison

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Mongolia is about 7 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, making Mongolia 561% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.5 million fewer people live in Mongolia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Mongolia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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