Papua New Guinea is about 1.4 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 72.58% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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