Papua New Guinea is around the same size as Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 94.82% the size of Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (4.0 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Turkmenistan vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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