Country size comparison
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Albania is about 16 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Albania is approximately 28,748 sq km, making Albania 6.21% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~10.8 million people (8.4 million fewer people live in Albania).
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