Country size comparison
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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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