Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1,553 times bigger than Maldives.
Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 155,215% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (9.2 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Maldives
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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