Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 3.7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 27.26% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (58,015 fewer people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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