Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 6 times smaller than Argentina.
Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 16.65% the size of Argentina. Meanwhile, the population of Argentina is ~46.2 million people (36.7 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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