Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is around the same size as Cameroon.

Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 97.35% the size of Cameroon. Meanwhile, the population of Cameroon is ~29.3 million people (19.7 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cameroon vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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