Papua New Guinea is about 2 times smaller than Venezuela.

Venezuela is approximately 912,050 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 50.75% the size of Venezuela. Meanwhile, the population of Venezuela is ~29.8 million people (20.2 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of Venezuela vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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