Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 16 times bigger than Albania.

Albania is approximately 28,748 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,510% larger than Albania. Meanwhile, the population of Albania is ~3.1 million people (6.5 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Albania vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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