Cook Islands is about 1,961 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 0.05% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.6 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Cook Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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