Country size comparison
compared to
Malaysia is about 1.4 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 71.27% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (24.3 million more people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Malaysia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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