Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 7 times bigger than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 617% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (7.8 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
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