Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 4 times bigger than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 299% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (3.1 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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