Country size comparison

compared to

Papua New Guinea is about 4.5 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 349% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (9.2 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.