Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 3.5 times bigger than Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 255% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.3 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Nicaragua
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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