Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 3.6 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 28.08% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (77.2 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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