Country size comparison

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Sudan is about 8 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, making Sudan 686% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.9 million people (43.8 million more people live in Sudan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Sudan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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