Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 4.1 times bigger than Louisiana.
Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 310% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (5.1 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Louisiana
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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