Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 258 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 25,714% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (20.8 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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