Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 14 times bigger than Moldova.

Moldova is approximately 33,851 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,267% larger than Moldova. Meanwhile, the population of Moldova is ~3.3 million people (6.3 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Moldova vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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