Country size comparison

Papua New Guinea

compared to

California, USA

Papua New Guinea is around the same size as California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 15% larger than California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (27.7 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea). We have positioned the outline of California near the middle of Papua New Guinea.

Flip comparison: see Papua New Guinea on top of California

This to-scale comparison of California vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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