Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 2.2 times bigger than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 123% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (23.2 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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