Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 15 times bigger than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,416% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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