Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 4.5 times bigger than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km,
while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making
Papua New Guinea 351% larger than Virginia.
Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people
(1.6 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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