Located in Southeastern Asia northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam.

Laos is bordered by Burma, Cambodia, China, Thailand and Vietnam.

Domain Information

Laos is located in ICANN's Asia/Australia/Pacific Region. Anyone located in this region is eligible for .asia domain registrations. If one of your contacts lives in Laos you can register a .asia domain.

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and with certain exceptions corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

Laos ccTLD: .la

The country code is marketed as the TLD for Los Angeles, and is open to foreign registrations.

Country Information

Population

6521998 (July 07 est)

Capital

Vientiane

GDP

$2.795 billion (2006 est)

Currency

Kip (LAK)

Internet Hosts

935 (2007)

Internet Users

25000 (2006)