Country size comparison
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Qatar is about 40 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 2.5% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (7.1 million fewer people live in Qatar).
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