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Location: Asia
Capital: Vientiane (532.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Luang Prabang, Pakxe, Savannakhet
Population: 5,400,000
Area: 236,800 km2
Coin: 1 kip = 100 at
Languages: Laotian, French
Religions: Buddhist, Animist
The Independence's Year: 1954
Montagne: Phu Bia
Fiumi: Mekong |
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State of the ex French Indochina among Vietnam, Cambogia and Thailand (it also confines for small lines with China and Myanmar).
It is a mountainous nation marked by the course of the Mekong, that form a vast level zone along the Thai border.
It has two capitals: a historian, Luang Prabang (70.000 inhabitants), ancient real center, small, fascinating and very beautiful city and the other, official, great and more modern capital, Vientiane (over half million inhabitants).
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