Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 3.7 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km,
while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making
Papua New Guinea 267% larger than North Carolina.
Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people
(58,015 more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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