Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.5 times smaller than Texas.
Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 68.26% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (15.6 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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Papua New Guinea
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