Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is around the same size as Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 91.58% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (37.6 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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