Solomon Islands is about 16 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Solomon Islands is approximately 28,896 sq km, making Solomon Islands 6.24% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (8.9 million fewer people live in Solomon Islands).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Solomon Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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