Virgin Islands is about 242 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 0.41% 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 Virgin Islands).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Virgin Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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