Puerto Rico is about 26 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 3.84% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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