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Mekong River flowing through Luang Prabang
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An anatomically modern human skull recovered from the Tam Pa Ling Cave is at least 46,000 years old.

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Laos

Population
7.9M
Area
236,800 km²
Capital
Vientiane
Continent
Asia
103rd most populous country in the world

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia, and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest.

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