Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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