Country size comparison
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Finland is about 1.4 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, making Finland 73.06% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Finland).
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