Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 51 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 4,984% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (6.5 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
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