Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is around the same size as Thailand.
Thailand is approximately 513,120 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 90.2% the size of Thailand. Meanwhile, the population of Thailand is ~69.6 million people (60.1 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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