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).
This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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