Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 38 times bigger than Vanuatu.
Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 3,697% larger than Vanuatu. Meanwhile, the population of Vanuatu is ~308,043 people (9.3 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Vanuatu
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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