Country size comparison
compared to
Texas is about 1.5 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 46% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (15.6 million more people live in Texas).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Texas
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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