El Salvador is about 22 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 4.55% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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