Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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