Country size comparison

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Palau is about 1,279 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.08% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (28.2 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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