Country size comparison
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Connecticut is about 37 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, making Connecticut 2.71% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (6.0 million fewer people live in Connecticut).
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