Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.9 times bigger than Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 85% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (290,142 fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Michigan
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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