Country size comparison
compared to
Latvia is about 7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km,
while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making
Latvia 13.95% the size of Papua New Guinea.
Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people
(7.8 million fewer people live in Latvia).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Latvia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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