Country size comparison

compared to

Papua New Guinea is about 7 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 605% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (13.6 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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