Australia is about 17 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 1,573% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (16.5 million more people live in Australia).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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