Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 2.6 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 37.97% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (47.9 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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