Country size comparison
compared to
Palau is about 90 times smaller than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 1.11% the size of Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (8.5 million fewer people live in Palau).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
Palau
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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