Iceland is about 4.5 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 22.25% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.2 million fewer people live in Iceland).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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