Laos is 1.04× the size of Victoria Island

Laos (country) covers about 228,000 km² (88,100 mi²) and Victoria Island (island) about 220,000 km² (84,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Victoria Island outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

228,000km²Laos
220,000km²Victoria Island

200 km

Laos
Victoria Island

What fits

Victoria Island is 96% of the size of Laos.
Laos is larger by 8,370 km² (3,230 mi²), which is 3.8% of the area of Victoria Island.
Measured in Belgiums: Laos is about 7.44, Victoria Island about 7.16.

How they differ

Their centres are about 9,740 km apart.
On a standard web map Victoria Island looks larger than Laos: Laos at 18°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Victoria Island at 71°N about 9.3×, so the map shows Victoria Island as 8.05× the size of Laos, when Laos is 1.04× the size of Victoria Island.
Together Laos and Victoria Island cover 448,000 km², close to the size of Uzbekistan (448,000 km², 0.0% smaller).
The gap between them, 8,370 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
Victoria Island's centre is 52.4° of latitude, about 5,820 km, farther north than Laos's.
Laos ranks 83rd of 212 countries by area.
Victoria Island is an island and ranks 7th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Laos stretches about 953 km north to south and 800 km east to west; Victoria Island about 546 km by 660 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 217,000 km² agrees with our measured 220,000 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Laos	1.04×
Farther north	Victoria Island	52.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Victoria Island	9.3× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Laos	Victoria Island
Belgium 30,700 km²	7.44×	7.16×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.94×	0.90×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.64×	0.61×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.61×	0.59×
France 548,000 km²	0.42×	0.40×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.07×	0.07×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Laos	Victoria Island
Is a	CountryAsia	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	228,000 km²88,100 mi²	220,000 km²84,800 mi²
Area, published	237,000 km²Wikidata	217,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	83rd of 212countries	7th of 81islands
Latitude range	14°N to 22°N	68°N to 73°N
On the shore	–	1 on the shore

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Victoria Island. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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