Language
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Palau

Palaos

Oceania

Key Information

Capital
Ngerulmud
Population
16,733
Area
459 km²
GDP
362 million $
Currency
USD
Difficulty on MapGuesser
Hard
Subregion
Micronesia
Calling code
+680

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Official Languages

EnglishPalauan

Flag Colors

bleujauneor

Flag History

The Flag of Palau was adopted on 1 January 1981, when the island group separated from the United Nations Trust Territory. As with the flags of several other Pacific island groups, light blue is the color used to represent the ocean and the nation's place within it. While this puts Palau in common with the Federated States of Micronesia and other neighboring island groups, the disc on the flag similar to that on the flag of Japan is off-centre like that of the flag of Bangladesh, but in this case...

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Neighboring countries

Palau is an island nation with no land borders.

Other countries of Oceania