Country size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 23 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 4.39% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Massachusetts).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Massachusetts
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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