New York is about 3.8 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 26.42% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.8 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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