Country size comparison
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Taiwan is about 13 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 7.77% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~10.8 million people (12.7 million more people live in Taiwan).
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