Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 5 times smaller than Algeria.
Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 19.43% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~47.4 million people (36.7 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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