Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 70.96% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (28.8 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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