Louisiana is about 4.1 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, making Louisiana 24.38% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Louisiana).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Louisiana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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