Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 3.8 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 26.3% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (2.5 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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