Country size comparison

compared to

Spain is around the same size as Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, making Spain 9% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (37.6 million more people live in Spain).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Spain uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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