Hello Sup Forums. I was wondering if you could teach me more about Laos...

Hello Sup Forums. I was wondering if you could teach me more about Laos. Why do we never hear about anything happening in this country? How different is it from its neighbors? How do you pronounce the name?

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avoid the place at all costs and the road signs are not in english, your guaranteed to get laost

carlos..

>How do you pronounce the name?
Lao, with a down tone: Lào

t. Tonal language speaker

Laos has a lot of forests and jungles. Genetically and culturally, Laotians are similar to Thais.

so, like "Lay-oh", Lau, Luh-oh, or Lau-oh?
How are Vietnamese-Laotian relations?

It's just one syllable.
>Vietnamese-Laotian relations
Pretty good, the best relationship we had with a neighbor country.

Who is the Mexico of your region

We're all Mexicos. :^)

really poor and undeveloped, landlocked, buddhist

that's the extent of my knowledge on it

omg how terribly sad.

Best of luck, friendo

Isn't Sri-Lanka poor, undeveloped, buddhist, and sealocked? Redpill me

Do you still vend fried dogs as street food? That's abhorrent.

Is Laos a puppet state of china at this point?

basically little thailand

so, like "Louse"

I'm from the ethnic Lao region of Thailand (Most populous region of Thailand and also has 10X more Lao people than Laos itself lol)

Laos is pronounced like the word "Loud" without the "d" on the end

We appreciate it if you call us Lao instead of Laotian. Laotian sounds weird

And yes Laos is to Thailand what Austria is to Germany

Sri-Lanka only recently got through a civil war, but besides that its not so bad, only issue are the landmines in some areas.

thanks Khan

Khan sounds like a Mongol name not a Lao one

It's worse than the Congo.

No I went to neighboring Cambodia and Cambodia had naked starving kids lol

Basically a chilled-out and poorer Thailand.

From my first impressions, the least entertaining country in SEA for travelling.

Laos is objectively worse than Cambodia.

How? You're probably a brown Khmer niggermonky your slef

>naked starving kids
>lol

I took this pic in Siem Reap, Cambodia lol

This pic

looks like Brazil and/or Africa

>How are Vietnamese-Laotian relations?
>Lao

You don't have to say "Laotian", you can just say "Lao". The people of Laos are referred to as Lao.

laoinese

Cambodia only has a slightly higher GDP, but Laos has higher per capita GDP. Sounds like Laos wins.

>Why do we never hear about anything happening in this country?

Well Laos is actually pretty relevant in terms of water resources. Laos has a plan to build multiple hydroelectric dams on the Mekong River, thereby becoming "the battery of Asia", and then grow its GDP by selling the energy to neighboring countries.

The problem is, all of these dams will fuck over the downstream countries of Cambodia and Vietnam cause:
1) Cambodia gets much of its protein supply from fish that migrate up the Mekong River to spawn. Dams in the way could lead to these fish becoming extinct.
2) Vietnam grows most of its rice in the Mekong Delta region, and the rice needs silt to grow, which will also be blocked by the dams

Vietnam and Cambodia are basically begging Laos to build less dams or at least build the dams in spots that won't stop fish migrations; and in response, Laos is basically saying "Fuck you I do what I want".

How come mainland SEA is poorer than insular SEA? you're supposed to better than those muslims and flips

geography
the island nations have the trade chokepoint advantage.

The US freed that place with 10 thousand loads of Agent Orange.

Historically we mainland was always superior

However maritime has oil, trade, and many many babies

Without oil maritime will look like East Timor lol

Also mainland was victim of commies.

Only Thailand survived commie takeover which is why we are rich

>Historically
reminder that historically, we maritimes create the second largest hindu and the largest buddhist temple in the world, something which you mainlanders who remains buddhist still unable to surpass

reminder that the meme empire of mainland, the khmer was founded as colony by the maritimes Javanese
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire#Formation_and_growth

we're historically richer than you, and we mostly still are today, at least we don't rely on sex tourism as economic industry
We do have communist insurgencies, we just take care of them better than you did, and timor is not even asian you dumbass

excuse you pham

HDI
Sri Lanka 0.757
Laos 0.575

GDP(PPP)/capita

Sri Lanka 11,739
Laos 5,321

Sri Lanka is fun but they're mad buddhists so they're sometimes a bit weird

Minnesota is full of their diaspora since 'nam

So are you Chinese or Japanese?

>Why do we never hear about anything happening in this country?
it has ten percent the population of thailand

Chinese

The ancient Canbodia was a javanese conlony.

But we declared independence early on and was powerful until 1500s

Angkor wat is the largest hindu temple by the way

haha

*you're
Dumbass

Dirty COMMUNIST TRAITORS live in that country. They hate democracy, and they hate freedom. They'd rather spend time BURNING THE AMERICAN FLAG than FIXING THEIR COUNTRY.

You're from what ocean?

I thought Philippines was the Mexico of the region

>be buddhist
>having the largest hindu temple
>not having the largest buddhist temple

btw SEA is nice until 1500s, thats when muslims and westerners came in

>Angkor wat is the largest hindu temple by the way

I think you meant largest buddhist temple friend

wow ,what happened to argentina

Thailand was still nice after 1500s

In 1767 the idiot Burmese destroyed a golden capital

But Bangkok is ok

But Ayuttaya would be sooo beautiful if it was still here ;(

Also unlike Islam, we buddhists dont purge our formal beliefs.

We still worship tribal gods and hindu gods

Has the same oil as the rest of SE Asia.