Country size comparison
compared to
Italy is about 1.5 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 65.11% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (51.5 million more people live in Italy).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Italy
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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