Country size comparison

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Mauritius is about 227 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, making Mauritius 0.44% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (8.3 million fewer people live in Mauritius).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Mauritius uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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