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Laos
Laos is a country in South-Eastern Asia with its capital in Vientiane.
- Capital
- Vientiane
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Population
- 7.6 million
- Languages
- Lao
- Currency
- Lao kip (₭)
- Area
- 236,800 km²
- Borders
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia 🇨🇳 China 🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam
💡 Most-bombed country per capita in history (US, 1964-73). Landlocked, mountainous, Buddhist.
About the flag
The white disc is often described as a full moon over the Mekong River. Unusually for a communist-led state, the flag has no star.
How to spot it: Red-blue-red horizontal bands with a white disc in the wide blue middle band.