Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.3 times smaller than Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 78.84% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (18.6 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Madagascar
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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