Country size comparison
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Slovenia is about 23 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Slovenia is approximately 20,273 sq km, making Slovenia 4.38% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (7.5 million fewer people live in Slovenia).
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