Population is about 18,008 people, the 220th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 426,308 of everyone alive.
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Palau
Republic of Palau
Oceania
ยท Micronesia
0Population
459kmยฒ of land
$14.88KGDP / person
MelekeokCapital
- ISO codes
- PW ยท PLW
- Density
- 39 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Palauan
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Dial code
- +680
- Internet domain
- .pw
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 7.5180ยฐ N, 134.5800ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Palauan
- UN region
- Micronesia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $268M
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Palau stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
220th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
197th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
87th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
168th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Palau
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 459 kmยฒ, making it the 197th largest country here.
Population density is about 39 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Melekeok, at 7.49ยฐ N, 134.63ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 7,026.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Pacific/Palau.
The currency is the United States dollar (USD, symbol $).
Has 2 official languages: English and Palauan.
Dials on +680 and uses the .pw internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Pacific/Palau
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UTC+09:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Melekeok
7.4874ยฐ N, 134.6265ยฐ E
7.03K