Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.2 times bigger than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 22% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (114.6 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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