Country size comparison
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                            Laos is about 57 times bigger than French Polynesia.
                        French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 5,583% larger than French Polynesia. Meanwhile, the population of French Polynesia is ~299,356 people (7.5 million more people live in Laos).
                    
                    
                        This to-scale comparison of
                        French Polynesia
                        vs.
                        Laos
                        uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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