Country size comparison

compared to

Papua New Guinea is around the same size as Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 87.66% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (21.4 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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