New Jersey is about 24 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 4.15% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (801,604 fewer people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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