Country size comparison

compared to

Taiwan is about 13 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 7.77% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (14.0 million more people live in Taiwan).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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