Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 37 times bigger than Connecticut.
Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 3,589% larger than Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (6.0 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Connecticut
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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