Country size comparison

compared to

Nicaragua is about 1.8 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 55.05% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (1.4 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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