Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 3.1 times bigger than Nepal.
Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 214% larger than Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (21.1 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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