Country size comparison

compared to

France is about 1.2 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 19% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (58.7 million more people live in France).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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