Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 11 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 8.92% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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