Country size comparison
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Colorado is about 1.7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, making Colorado 58.04% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Colorado).
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