Country size comparison
compared to
Christmas Island is about 3,428 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Christmas Island is approximately 135 sq km, making Christmas Island 0.03% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.6 million fewer people live in Christmas Island).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Christmas Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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