Country size comparison

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Gabon is about 1.7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, making Gabon 57.83% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (7.3 million fewer people live in Gabon).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Gabon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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