Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 3.2 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 222% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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