Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 284 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 28,303% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (6.3 million more people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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