Country size comparison

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Palau is about 258 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.39% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.8 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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