American Samoa is about 2,066 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while American Samoa is approximately 224 sq km, making American Samoa 0.05% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.5 million fewer people live in American Samoa).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. American Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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