Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 3.8 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 26.3% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (2.5 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
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