Country size comparison

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Palau is about 823 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.12% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~123.4 million people (123.3 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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