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Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a sovereign state located in the interior of the Indochina peninsula, in Southeast Asia. It borders Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. Its capital and most populated city is Vientiane. It has an area of ​​236 800 km² and a population estimated in 2016 of 6 758 353 inhabitants. The current territory of Laos belonged to the kingdom of Lan Xang between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.

After the colonial period, in which the country was a French colony, it gained independence in 1949, which was followed by a civil war that culminated in 1975 with the rise to power of the Pathet Lao communists. The presence of private companies has increased since the mid-1980s. Laos is rated as one of the countries with the lowest degree of economic freedom. Despite this, the country's economy grew by 7.2% in 2006, the 35th fastest growing country in the world.80% of the population is dedicated to subsistence agriculture. The country has a great ethnic variety, but 70% belongs to the Lao ethnic group. The term Lao is also used to refer to the dominant and official language of the country., although French is also spoken.