Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 37 times bigger than Connecticut.

Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 3,589% larger than Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (6.0 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Connecticut vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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