Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 2.7 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 37.32% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (11.1 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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