Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 1.2 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km,
while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making
Japan 81.65% the size of Papua New Guinea.
Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people
(114.6 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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