Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 2.4 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 41.91% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (104.1 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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