Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 1.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 70.96% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (28.8 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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