Country size comparison

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Palau is about 586 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.17% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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1 people moved from Palau to New Zealand.
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