Country size comparison

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Bhutan is about 12 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 8.3% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (8.7 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Bhutan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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