Palau
Micronesia · Ngerulmud
Everything Mapfold knows about Palau, and the 3 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Palau in figures
- Capital
- Ngerulmud
- Region
- Micronesia
- Area
- 459 km²
- Population
- 17,663
- Density
- 38.5 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 0
- Coast
- No land border
- Highest point
- 242 m
- Mean temperature
- 27.9 °C
- Life expectancy
- 69.4 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 19,532
- Urban
- 79.3 %
- Forest
- 90.5 %
Palau in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Palau answers to it. This is not a fact about Palau so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Palau
3 answers are enough to leave Palau alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It is in Oceania.
13 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
Its highest point is under 500 m.
4 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
More than 60% of it is forest.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Palau unusual
It is in Oceania.
13 of 192 countriesIts highest point is under 500 m.
21 of 192 countriesMore than 60% of it is forest.
26 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- REGION
It is in Oceania.
13 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is under 500 m.
21 of 192 countries - NATURE
More than 60% of it is forest.
26 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than a million people live there.
36 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It shares no land border with anyone.
37 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at most one country.
54 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is smaller than Belgium.
57 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
59 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs taller than it is wide.
66 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is below 2,000 m.
74 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $12,000.
78 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 100,000 km².
85 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies east of 20°E.
97 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than ten million people live there.
97 of 192 countries - NATURE
More than 30% of it is forest.
100 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages warmer than 22 °C all year.
104 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is below 75.
107 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is thinner than 150 people per square kilometre.
136 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages over 12 °C all year.
143 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Asia.
146 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Palau compares
- Bigger than Seychelles
- Smaller than Andorra
- More people than Nauru
- Fewer people than San Marino
- 179th largest of 192 by area
- 191st by population, of 192
Which countries border Palau
Palau shares no land border with anyone.
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