Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 17,802 times bigger than Tuvalu.
Tuvalu is approximately 26 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 1,780,054% larger than Tuvalu. Meanwhile, the population of Tuvalu is ~9,492 people (10.8 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
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