Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 11 times bigger than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,021% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (1.1 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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