Country size comparison
compared to
California is around the same size as Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 87.26% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (27.7 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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