Country size comparison
compared to
Washington is about 2.7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 37.24% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in Washington).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Washington
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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