Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 22 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 4.55% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
El Salvador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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