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Lao People's Army Museum

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Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Lao People's Army Museum
Phone:
+856 20 76 505 431

Hours:
Sunday8:30am - 11:30am, 1:30pm - 4pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday8:30am - 11:30am, 1:30pm - 4pm
Wednesday8:30am - 11:30am, 1:30pm - 4pm
Thursday8:30am - 11:30am, 1:30pm - 4pm
Friday8:30am - 11:30am, 1:30pm - 4pm
Saturday8:30am - 11:30am, 1:30pm - 4pm


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 , 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 . Laos is geographically isolated and mountainous, bounded by the Annamite Range in the east, forming a traditional political and cultural boundary with Vietnam . 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 , Sipsong Chau Tai , and Khorat Plateau 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. As a result, Laos today has cultural influence from France, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Burma and Cambodia. The history of Laos is unique with a national character defined by its diversity in both culture and customs.
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