Venezuela is 97% larger than Papua New Guinea.
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
Area: 912,050 km2 World Factbook
Population: 28,868,486 (July 2014) World Factbook
Venezuela, officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America. Venezuela's territory covers around 916,445 square kilometres with an estimated population of approximately 29,100,000. Wikipedia