Country size comparison

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Russia is about 37 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 3,594% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (132.4 million more people live in Russia).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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