Belgium is about 15 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 6.6% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (2.3 million more people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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