Country size comparison
compared to
Belgium is about 15 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 6.6% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (2.3 million more people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Belgium
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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