Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 2.7 times smaller than Niger.
Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 36.53% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (14.9 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Niger
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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