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Laos

Facts about Laos - 25 Things You Should Know

More American ordnance was dropped on Laos between 1964 and 1973 than on all of Europe during World War II. The equivalent of a planeload of munitions every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years. A tiny, landlocked country that never even officially declared war, and it became the most heavily bombed place on earth. Laos is a complex mosaic of hundreds of ethnic worlds bound together by rivers, mountains, and little else, but there are enough American-made bombshells littering the countr