Country size comparison
compared to
New Zealand is about 1.7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 58.08% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (4.5 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
New Zealand
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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