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Laos
Location
Capital
Flag
- The city of Vientiane is located on the Mekong River's bank near the Laos-Thailand border, and is the seat of the country’s national government.
- With an estimated population of 760,000 in 2015, the city is also the most populous in the nation.
National Flag adopted when the country became a people's republic in 1975.
- The White disk symbolizes unity of the people.
- Red stripes for blood shed by people in struggle for freedom.
- Blue for their prosperity.
Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It's borders are Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.
Food
Animals
Animals Cont.
These rusty-furred creatures tend to live alone, only rarely traveling in pairs or in families.
About Laos
Per-capita sticky rice consumption in Laos is the highest on earth.
The name simply refers to its sticky and glue-like texture. Sticky rice gets its infamous stickiness from starch.
Tiger
The Red Panda habitat is in decline. The loss of nesting trees and bamboo in the Eastern Himalayas—the location of almost 50% of the red panda’s habitat—is causing a decline in red panda populations across much of their range.
Hoolock Gibbon
Saola
Red-Shanked Douc
Elephant
Plain of Jars
Population/Size
Religion
40-50% of population are Buddhists which is by far the most prominent organized religion in the country, with nearly 5,000 temples serving as the focus of religious practice as well as the center of community life in rural areas. In most lowland Lao villages, religious tradition remains strong.
Others are from 48 distinct ethnic minority groups
Catholics and Protestants - 2%
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85,000 square miles
6.4 million people
- Thousands of stone urns dating back to the Iron Age are peppered over hundreds of square kilometers in the mountains surrounding Phonsavan.
- Scattered in seemingly random locations, some reach enormous dimensions – up to 3m tall and 1m wide – and weigh well more than a few metric tonnes.
- Human bones, stone lids and discs have also been found in the area..
Tourist Sites
Pha That Luang - Gold-covered Buddhist statue in central Vientiane
Vat Phou - ruined temple in Southern Laos
Wat Xieng Thong - Buddhist Temple, northern Laos
Patuxai - War monument in central Vientiane
Haw Phra Kaew - Former Temple in Vientiane
Government
- As a traditional society until 1975, Laos was a conservative monarchy, dominated by a small number of powerful families.
- In 1975 it was transformed into a communist oligarchy, but its social makeup remained much the same.
- In the 600-year-old monarchy, the Lao king ruled from Louangphrabang (Luang Prabang).