Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 1.6 times smaller than Chile.

Chile is approximately 756,102 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 61.21% the size of Chile. Meanwhile, the population of Chile is ~18.4 million people (8.8 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chile vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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