Country size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 4.5 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 22.16% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (1.6 million fewer people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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