Maryland is about 18 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 5.47% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.8 million fewer people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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