Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 3.9 times bigger than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 291% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (11.2 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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