Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 84 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 1.2% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (7.5 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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