Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 1.7 times smaller than Turkey.
Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 59.07% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (73.5 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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