Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 3.2 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 220% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (6.5 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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