Country size comparison
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Maldives is about 1,553 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.06% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.2 million fewer people live in Maldives).
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