Lao or Laos

Southeast Asian countries and peoples When we say ‘we’, the post is, of course, written from the point of view of a native English speaker and we’re not going into the various, for example, French, German or Spanish names used to refer to Southeast Asian countries and their peoples. We’re comparing names currently in use today in the English language,…

Lao or Laos Lao or Laos, what’s that little country called again? Visitors frequently get confused between Cambodian and Khmer, aren’t always sure whether they should be saying Burma or Myanmar and we’ve also even heard people referring to the inhabitants of Thailand as Thailandese. However, the small, land-locked and mountainous country of Lao or Laos probably comes out on…