Country size comparison
compared to
Palau is about 586 times smaller than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.17% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Palau).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Palau
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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