Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 2.6 times bigger than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 159% larger than Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (3.6 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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