Country size comparison

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Palau is about 1,267 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.08% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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