Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 18 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 5.69% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.6 million more people live in Rwanda).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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