New Caledonia is about 25 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 4.01% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.3 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. New Caledonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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