Laos
/laʊs
/ /ˈlɑːɒs/
A landlocked country in SE Asia; population 6,834,300 (est. 2009); official language, Laotian; capital, Vientiane.
Part of French Indo-China, Laos became independent in 1949, but for most of the next twenty-five years was torn by civil strife between the communist Pathet Lao movement and government supporters. In 1975 the Pathet Lao achieved total control and a communist republic was established.
- makarism
- makarize
- Makarov
- makarrata
- Makasar
- Makasarese
- Makassar
- Makassarese
- Makassar Strait
- makatea
- Makaton
- makdom
- make
- make a beeline for
- make a (big) thing of (or about)
- makeable
- make a bolt for
- make a break for
- make a clean breast of it
- make a clean job of something
- make a clean sweep
- make a conquest of
- make a day (or night) of it
- make a dead set at
- make-a-do