Country size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 6 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km,
while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making
South Carolina 16.85% the size of Papua New Guinea.
Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people
(5.0 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
South Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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