Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 1.4 times smaller than Central African Republic.

Central African Republic is approximately 622,984 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 74.29% the size of Central African Republic. Meanwhile, the population of Central African Republic is ~5.5 million people (4.1 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Central African Republic vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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