Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 4.6 times bigger than South Korea.

South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 364% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (42.3 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of South Korea vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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