Country size comparison

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Democratic Republic of the Congo is about 5 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 2,344,858 sq km, making Democratic Republic of the Congo 407% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (98.8 million more people live in Democratic Republic of the Congo).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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