Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 23 times bigger than Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 2,179% larger than Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (3.0 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Massachusetts
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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