Country size comparison

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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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