Malaysia is about 1.4 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 71.27% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (24.3 million more people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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