Country size comparison
compared to
Missouri is about 2.6 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, making Missouri 38.55% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.6 million fewer people live in Missouri).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Missouri
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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