Country size comparison
compared to
Madagascar is about 1.3 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 27% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (18.6 million more people live in Madagascar).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Madagascar
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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