Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 7 times smaller than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 14.08% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.5 billion people (1.5 billion fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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