Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 2 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 48.86% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (54.3 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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