Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.5 times bigger than Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 54% larger than Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (51.5 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Italy
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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