Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 17,802 times bigger than Tuvalu.
Tuvalu is approximately 26 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,780,054% larger than Tuvalu. Meanwhile, the population of Tuvalu is ~11,544 people (9.6 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Tuvalu
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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