Country size comparison
compared to
Palau is about 16,865 times smaller than Australia.
Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.01% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (26.1 million fewer people live in Palau).
This to-scale comparison of
Australia
vs.
Palau
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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