Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 4.3 times bigger than Tennessee.
Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 334% larger than Tennessee. Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~6.3 million people (3.2 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
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