Country size comparison

compared to

Papua New Guinea is about 2.7 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 37.32% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (11.1 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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