Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 11 times bigger than Netherlands.
Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,014% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (7.8 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Netherlands
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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