Country size comparison
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Argentina is about 6 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, making Argentina 501% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (36.7 million more people live in Argentina).
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