Country size comparison

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Norway is about 1.4 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 37% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Norway).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Norway uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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