Country size comparison
compared to
Minnesota is about 2.2 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, making Minnesota 44.55% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Minnesota).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Minnesota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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