Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 5 times bigger than Indiana.
Indiana is approximately 92,895 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 398% larger than Indiana. Meanwhile, the population of Indiana is ~6.5 million people (3.1 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
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