Country size comparison
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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).
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