Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 1.4 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 41% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (28.8 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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