Country size comparison
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Kuwait is about 26 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 3.85% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
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