Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 3.2 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 222% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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