Papua New Guinea is 1.03× the size of Yemen

Papua New Guinea covers about 465,000 km² (180,000 mi²) and Yemen about 453,000 km² (175,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

465,000km²Papua New Guinea
453,000km²Yemen

500 km

Papua New Guinea
Yemen

What fits

Yemen is 97% of the size of Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is larger by 12,100 km² (4,660 mi²), which is 2.7% of the area of Yemen.
Measured in Belgiums: Papua New Guinea is about 15.2, Yemen about 14.8.

How they differ

Papua New Guinea is larger, but Yemen has the larger population: 28.3 million against 8.9 million, 3.16× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 62 in Yemen against 19 in Papua New Guinea: Yemen is 3.25× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 11,000 km apart.
On a standard web map Yemen looks larger than Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea at 6°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Yemen at 16°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Yemen as 1.04× the size of Papua New Guinea, when Papua New Guinea is 1.03× the size of Yemen.
Together Papua New Guinea and Yemen cover 918,000 km², close to the size of Venezuela (913,000 km², 0.6% smaller).
The gap between them, 12,100 km², is about the size of Vanuatu (12,300 km²).
At Yemen's density, Papua New Guinea would have 29.0 million people (it has 8.9 million). At Papua New Guinea's density, Yemen would have 8.7 million (it has 28.3 million).
Yemen's centre is 22.4° of latitude, about 2,490 km, farther north than Papua New Guinea's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Papua New Guinea	1.03×
More people	Yemen	3.16×
More crowded	Yemen	3.25×
Farther north	Yemen	22.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Yemen	1.1× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Papua New Guinea	Yemen
Belgium 30,700 km²	15.2×	14.8×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.91×	1.86×
Germany 358,000 km²	1.30×	1.27×
Japan 374,000 km²	1.25×	1.21×
France 548,000 km²	0.85×	0.83×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.15×	0.14×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Papua New Guinea	Yemen
Area, main territory	465,000 km²180,000 mi²	453,000 km²175,000 mi²
Population	8.9 millionWikidata, 2020	28.3 millionWikidata, 2017
Density	19 per km²	62 per km²
Official area	463,000 km²Wikidata	456,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Port Moresby	Sanaa; Aden
Latitude range	12°S to 1°S	12°N to 19°N
Continent	Oceania	Asia

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2017, covering each whole country. 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 456,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 453,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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