Country size comparison
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Palau is about 1,421 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.07% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.3 million fewer people live in Palau).
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