Country size comparison
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Papua New Guinea is about 1.6 times smaller than Zambia.
Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 61.5% the size of Zambia. Meanwhile, the population of Zambia is ~19.6 million people (10.0 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
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