Country size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 4.5 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 22.23% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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