New Caledonia is about 13 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 7.84% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (7.5 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. New Caledonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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