Papua New Guinea is 1,553 times larger than Maldives.
Area: 298 km2 World Factbook
Population: 393,595 (July 2014) World Factbook
Maldives, officially the Republic of the Maldives and also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean–Arabian Sea area, consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls, oriented north-south, that lie between Minicoy Island and the Chagos Archipelago. Wikipedia
Area: 462,840 km2 World Factbook
Population: 6,552,730 (July 2014) World Factbook
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Wikipedia