Country size comparison
compared to
Louisiana is about 4.1 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, making Louisiana 24.38% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Louisiana).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Louisiana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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