Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 20 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 4.89% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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