Country size comparison

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United Kingdom is about 1.9 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, making United Kingdom 52.63% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (58.2 million more people live in United Kingdom).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. United Kingdom uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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