Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 7 times bigger than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 617% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (7.8 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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