Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.7 times bigger than Gabon.
Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 73% larger than Gabon. Meanwhile, the population of Gabon is ~2.3 million people (7.3 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Gabon
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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