Country size comparison
compared to
Palau is about 580 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.17% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (630,576 fewer people live in Palau).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Palau
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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