Country size comparison

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Palau is about 315 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.32% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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