Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 163 times bigger than Samoa.
Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 16,249% larger than Samoa. Meanwhile, the population of Samoa is ~206,179 people (9.4 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Samoa
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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