Country size comparison
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Turks and Caicos Islands is about 488 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Turks and Caicos Islands is approximately 948 sq km, making Turks and Caicos Islands 0.2% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.5 million fewer people live in Turks and Caicos Islands).
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