Country size comparison
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Ethiopia is about 2.4 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 139% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (104.1 million more people live in Ethiopia).
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