Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 2.5 times smaller than Colombia.
Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 40.64% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (39.5 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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