Country size comparison
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Algeria is about 5 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 415% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (34.6 million more people live in Algeria).
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