Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.4 times bigger than Malaysia.
Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 40% larger than Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (24.3 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Malaysia
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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