Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 3.8 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 284% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (16.4 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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