Country size comparison

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Russia is about 37,251 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 3,725,007% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (142.0 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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