Country size comparison
compared to
Pennsylvania is about 2 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 49.02% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (5.0 million more people live in Pennsylvania).
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