Country size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 18 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 5.47% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.8 million fewer people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Maryland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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