Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 3.6 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 28.08% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (77.2 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Iran
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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