Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 22 times bigger than El Salvador.

El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 2,100% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (3.0 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of El Salvador vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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