Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.9 times bigger than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 95% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (1.8 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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