Individual #Laos__Lao_People's_Democratic_Republic  a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949
  instance of:  Asian_country
  part:  Vientiane  Mekong_River
  member:  Laotian
  part of:  Indochina__Indochinese_peninsula  a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam
     part of:  Southeast_Asia  a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore
        part of:  Asia  the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
           part of:  Eurasia  the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
              part of:  eastern_hemisphere__easternhemisphere__orient  the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
              part of:  northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator

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