Country size comparison

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Portugal is about 5 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 19.9% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (648,583 more people live in Portugal).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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