Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 3.9 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 294% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (3.4 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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