Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 2.2 times smaller than Egypt.
Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 46.22% the size of Egypt. Meanwhile, the population of Egypt is ~107.8 million people (98.2 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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