Country size comparison

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Sydney is about 17,335 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Sydney is approximately 27 sq km, making Sydney 0.01% the size of Papua New Guinea.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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