Country size comparison

compared to

Papua New Guinea is about 4 times smaller than Sudan.

Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 24.86% the size of Sudan. Meanwhile, the population of Sudan is ~48.0 million people (38.4 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sudan vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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