Laos

Facts

What the numbers say about Laos

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 74.4× the size of Laos.
• At 30 people per km², Laos is the 133rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Laos lies at 18°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Laos's main territory stretches about 953 km north to south and 800 km east to west.
• Our measured 228,000 km² is 3.7% below Wikidata's official figure of 237,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Laos measures up

Laos holds 0.7% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In South-Eastern Asia it is the 7th largest of 11.

Where Laos sits

• Laos's centre lies at 18.5°N, 103.8°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 2,060 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 14°N to 22°N, about 950 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Laos had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Laos would have 285.7 million people. It has 6.9 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Laos would have 848,000 people. It has 6.9 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 16.5 million.

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