Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 20 times bigger than Djibouti.

Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,895% larger than Djibouti. Meanwhile, the population of Djibouti is ~957,273 people (8.6 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Djibouti vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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