Country size comparison

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Laos is about 516 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 51,490% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (7.7 million more people live in Laos).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Laos uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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