Papua New Guinea is about 4.1 times smaller than Indonesia.

Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 24.3% the size of Indonesia. Meanwhile, the population of Indonesia is ~277.3 million people (267.7 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Indonesia vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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