Country size comparison
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Poland is about 1.5 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Poland is approximately 312,685 sq km, making Poland 67.56% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (28.5 million more people live in Poland).
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