Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 2,656 times bigger than Palau.
Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 265,497% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (57.5 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Palau
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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