Country size comparison
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Palau is about 90 times smaller than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 1.11% the size of Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~9.1 million people (9.1 million fewer people live in Palau).
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Moving from Palau to Switzerland · UN DESA 2020
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