Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 2.2 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 44.91% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (5.4 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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