Country size comparison

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Burma is about 1.5 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Burma is approximately 676,578 sq km, making Burma 46% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~10.8 million people (44.1 million more people live in Burma).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Burma uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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