Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 4.2 times smaller than Mexico.
Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 23.56% the size of Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of Mexico is ~129.2 million people (119.6 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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Moving from Papua New Guinea to Mexico · OECD 2022
1 people moved from Papua New Guinea to Mexico.
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