Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 9 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 11.12% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (5.4 million more people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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