Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 480 times bigger than Sao Tome and Principe.
Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 47,912% larger than Sao Tome and Principe. Meanwhile, the population of Sao Tome and Principe is ~217,164 people (9.4 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Sao Tome and Principe
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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