Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 2,571 times bigger than Aruba.

Aruba is approximately 180 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 257,033% larger than Aruba. Meanwhile, the population of Aruba is ~122,320 people (9.5 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Aruba vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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