Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 3,428 times bigger than Christmas Island.

Christmas Island is approximately 135 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 342,744% larger than Christmas Island. Meanwhile, the population of Christmas Island is ~2,205 people (9.6 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Christmas Island vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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