Cabo Verde is about 115 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Cabo Verde is approximately 4,033 sq km, making Cabo Verde 0.87% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.0 million fewer people live in Cabo Verde).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Cabo Verde uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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