Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 2.2 times bigger than Minnesota.
Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 124% larger than Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (4.3 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Minnesota
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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