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Laos developed its culture and customs as the inland crossroads of trade and migration in Southeast Asia over millennia. As of 2012 Laos has a population of roughly 6.4 million spread over 236,800 km2 (91,400 sq miles), yielding one of the lowest population densities in Asia. Yet the country of Laos has an official count of over forty-seven ethnicities divided into 149 sub-groups and 80 different languages. The Lao Loum have throughout the country's history comprised the ethnic and linguistic majority. In Southeast Asia, traditional Lao culture is considered one of the Indic cultures (along with Burma, Thailand and Cambodia).
Laos is geographically isolated and mountainous, bounded by the Annamite Range in the east, forming a traditional political and cultural boundary with Vietnam (a more Chinese influenced Sinitic culture). Much of the western borders of Laos are formed by the Mekong River which provided the major means of inland trade despite limited navigability along the river's length. Prior to the 20th century Lao principalities and the Kingdom of Lan Xang extended to the Sipsong Panna (China), Sipsong Chau Tai (Vietnam), and Khorat Plateau (today the northeast of Thailand) where the river was used as a transportation artery to connect Lao peoples on both the right and left banks. However, the political history of Laos has been complicated by frequent warfare and colonial conquests by European and regional rivals. The history of Laos is unique with a national character defined by its diversity in both culture and customs.
Laos developed its culture and customs as the inland crossroads of trade and migration in Southeast Asia over millennia. As of 2012 Laos has a population...
The politics of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (commonly known as Laos) takes place in the framework of a one-party parliamentary socialist republic...
music ofLaos includes the music of the Lao people, a Tai ethnic group, and other ethnic groups living in Laos. The traditional music ofLaos has similarities...
characteristic of Laos and of its culture. "National flower - Dok Champa". Laos Tourism. 2015-08-07. Retrieved 2023-01-15. "National bird ofLaos - Siamese Fireback...
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese...
The Kingdom ofLaos was the form of government in Laos from 1947 to 1975. Located in Southeast Asia at the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, it was...
(LGBT) rights in Laos go unreported and unnoticed. While homosexuality is legal in Laos, it is very difficult to assess the current state of acceptance and...
person. Sticky rice is deeply ingrained in the culture, religious tradition and national identity ofLaos. It is a common belief within the Lao community...
French protectorate ofLaos (French: Protectorat français du Laos) was a French protectorate in Southeast Asia of what is today Laos between 1893 and 1953—with...
chewing of the product is part of the cultureof Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Cultivation of areca nut palm and betel leaves is common in rural areas of these...
Mansfield, Stephen; Koh, Magdalene (2008). Laos. Volume 15 ofCulturesof the World Series Culturesof the World - Group 15. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 0-7614-3035-0...
The flag ofLaos (Lao: ທຸງຊາດລາວ; thungsad Lāo) consists of three horizontal stripes, with the middle stripe in blue being twice the height of the top...
York Times manual of style and usage. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press. Rehbein, B. (2007). Globalization, culture and society in Laos. New York: Routledge...
The dance and theatre ofLaos (nattakam Lao, Lao: ນາດຕະກັມລາວ [nâːt táʔ kam láːw]) is the primary dramatic art form ofLaos' majority ethnic group, the...
local celebrations. In Laos, romvong is known as lamvong or lamvonglao that is believed to have been part of the cultureofLaos since ancient time. Today’s...
The Laotian Civil War (1959–1975) was a civil war in Laos waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December...
Laos is a country in and the only landlocked nation in mainland Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam. It covers approximately 236...
primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos. Its earlier form, the Tai Noi script, was also used to write the Isan language...
pronunciation: [kàtʰɤːj]) is an identity used by some people in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, whose identities in English may be best described as transgender...
Historical Dictionary ofLaos. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-2028-6. Igunma, Jana (11 January 2021). "Inspiring women writers ofLaos: (1) Dara Viravong...
(Lao: ວັນຊາດ) is a public holiday in Laos held on December 2 to mark the end of the monarchy and the establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic...
a shrine to the protective spirit of a place that is found in the Southeast Asian countries of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam...
insurgency in Laos is a low-intensity conflict between the Laotian government on one side and former members of the Secret Army, Laotian royalists, and...
Southeast Asia such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. There is also a large diasporic community in the United States of more than 300,000. The Hmong...
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