Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 51 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km,
while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making
Puerto Rico 1.97% the size of Papua New Guinea.
Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people
(6.5 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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