Papua New Guinea is 5.30× the size of Andalusia

What fits

• Andalusia fits inside Papua New Guinea about 5.30 times by area.
• Papua New Guinea is larger by 377,000 km² (146,000 mi²), which is 430% of the area of Andalusia.
• Measured in Belgiums: Papua New Guinea is about 15.2, Andalusia about 2.86.

How they differ

• Papua New Guinea also has the larger population: 8.9 million against 8.6 million, 1.04× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 98 in Andalusia against 19 in Papua New Guinea: Andalusia is 5.12× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 15,400 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Papua New Guinea at 6°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Andalusia at 37°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Papua New Guinea as 3.38× the size of Andalusia instead of 5.30×.
• Together Papua New Guinea and Andalusia cover 553,000 km², close to the size of France (548,000 km², 0.9% smaller).
• The gap between them, 377,000 km², is about the size of Japan (374,000 km²).
• At Andalusia's density, Papua New Guinea would have 45.7 million people (it has 8.9 million). At Papua New Guinea's density, Andalusia would have 1.7 million (it has 8.6 million).
• Andalusia's centre is 43.9° of latitude, about 4,890 km, farther north than Papua New Guinea's.
• Papua New Guinea ranks 55th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Andalusia is the 2nd largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 17% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
• Andalusia lies about 44° of latitude (roughly 4,890 km) north of Papua New Guinea, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Papua New Guinea would have about 52,060 m² and each person in Andalusia about 10,170 m².
• Laid side by side, Papua New Guinea and Andalusia would cover 553,000 km², about the same size as France.
• Together they have 17.6 million people, about as many people as Malawi.
• Counted as a country, Andalusia would rank 114th by area and 100th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2024. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 463,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 465,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 87,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 87,700 km², to within 2%.

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