Country size comparison
compared to
Somalia is about 1.4 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 38% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (2.8 million more people live in Somalia).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Somalia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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