Country size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 3.8 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 26.25% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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