Country size comparison
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Mali is about 2.7 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 168% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (11.1 million more people live in Mali).
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