Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 4.2 times bigger than Cuba.

Cuba is approximately 110,860 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 317% larger than Cuba. Meanwhile, the population of Cuba is ~11.0 million people (1.4 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cuba vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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