Country size comparison

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Palau is about 375 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.27% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (6.7 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Washington vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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