Palau
Palau (officially Republic of Palau) is a country in Micronesia, with its capital at Ngerulmud, and is home to roughly 17.7K people.
Its official languages are English, Palauan; the currency in circulation is United States dollar ($); people from here are called Palauan.
- »Palau created the world's first shark sanctuary.
- »Jellyfish Lake holds golden jellyfish that lost most of their sting in isolation.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 71% of the area, plus seven further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Palau shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Philippines (1,712 km), Papua New Guinea (1,901 km) and Timor-Leste (2,053 km), measured centre to centre.
Ngerulmud is among the least populated capitals in the world, a purpose-built government seat on Babeldaob with only a few hundred residents.
494 km² (191 sq mi), 181st largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Singapore.
Population 17,695, 195th of 198 on file. That averages 36 per km² (93 per sq mi).
The gold disc is the full moon, considered the most favourable time for fishing, planting and celebration, set off-centre on the blue of the Pacific.