Country size comparison

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Palau is about 583 times smaller than Gabon.

Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.17% the size of Gabon. Meanwhile, the population of Gabon is ~2.3 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Gabon vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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