Indonesia is about 4.1 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, making Indonesia 311% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (267.7 million more people live in Indonesia).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Indonesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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