Country size comparison

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China is about 20,908 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 2,090,741% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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