| NAME: |
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| LOCATION: |
Asia |
| GOVERNMENT: |
Communist state. |
| OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: |
Lao (official), French, English, and various ethnic languages are also spoken. |
| MAJOR RELIGION(S): |
Buddhist 60%, animist and other, 40%.
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| MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: |
Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong and the Yao 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1%.
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