Papua New Guinea is about 1.3 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 79.56% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (7.2 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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