Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 11 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 8.98% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (7.8 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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