Country size comparison
compared to
Palau is about 408 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km,
while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making
Palau 0.24% the size of Syria.
Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people
(21.5 million fewer people live in Palau).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Palau
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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