Country size comparison

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Palau is about 66 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 1.51% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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