Samoa is about 163 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.61% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.4 million fewer people live in Samoa).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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