Country size comparison
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Uganda is about 1.9 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Uganda is approximately 241,038 sq km, making Uganda 52.08% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (36.6 million more people live in Uganda).
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