Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 6 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km,
while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making
Papua New Guinea 494% larger than South Carolina.
Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people
(5.0 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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