Papua New Guinea is about 2.2 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 44.91% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (5.4 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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