Country size comparison

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Peru is about 5 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 443% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (24.5 million more people live in Peru).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Peru uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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