Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 3.8 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 281% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (6.6 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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