Country size comparison

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Palau is about 223 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.45% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.9 million people (8.9 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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