Country size comparison

compared to

Papua New Guinea is about 1.2 times smaller than Kenya.

Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 79.75% the size of Kenya. Meanwhile, the population of Kenya is ~55.9 million people (46.3 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kenya vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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