Country size comparison

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Palau is about 3,833 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.03% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (7.1 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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