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 ~9.6 million people (14.0 million more people live in Taiwan).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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