Papua New Guinea

Facts

What the numbers say about Papua New Guinea

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 36.5× the size of Papua New Guinea.
• Papua New Guinea ranks 54th of 239 by area but only 99th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 19 people per km², Papua New Guinea is the 152nd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Papua New Guinea lies at 6°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Papua New Guinea's main territory stretches about 1,150 km north to south and 1,660 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 463,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 465,000 km², to within 2%.

How Papua New Guinea measures up

Papua New Guinea holds 5.5% of the land area and 20% of the people of the 14 countries listed for Oceania. In Melanesia it is the 1st largest of 4.

Where Papua New Guinea sits

• Papua New Guinea's centre lies at 6.5°S, 145.2°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 720 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 12°S to 1°S, about 1,140 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Papua New Guinea had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Papua New Guinea would have 582.6 million people. It has 8.9 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Papua New Guinea would have 1.7 million people. It has 8.9 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 33.7 million.

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