Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.7 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 74% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (8.9 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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