Country size comparison
compared to
Connecticut is about 37 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, making Connecticut 2.71% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (6.0 million fewer people live in Connecticut).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Connecticut
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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