Country size comparison

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Palau is about 44 times smaller than Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 2.26% the size of Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Massachusetts vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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