Country size comparison

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Australia is about 16,865 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 1,686,440% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (26.1 million more people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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