Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1,465 times bigger than Malta.
Malta is approximately 316 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 146,368% larger than Malta. Meanwhile, the population of Malta is ~464,186 people (9.1 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Malta
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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