Country size comparison
compared to
Palau is about 20 times smaller than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 5.04% the size of Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (3.1 million fewer people live in Palau).
This to-scale comparison of
Puerto Rico
vs.
Palau
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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