Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.7 times bigger than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 72% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (4.5 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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