Country size comparison
compared to
Palau is about 2,246 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.04% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in Palau).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Palau
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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