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Palau was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Palauan cuisine was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 06 May 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Palau. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Economy

The graphic shows around a third of the economy involves the export of computer parts or broadcasting accessories. Nothing in the text supports this improbable sounding claim.

Could any editor expand, please?

Springnuts (talk) 11:32, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CO2 emissions

Wikipedia has done a fine job of presenting country's various demographic and other data in a nice table at the beginning of each wiki entry for each country. These tables include things like language, religion, GDP, population, etc etc.

In this day and age of climate change, a highly important fact now for all of us, is a country's CO2 emissions.

With this in mind, Wikipedia should now report absolute CO2 emissions as well as CO2 emissions per capita, in this same data table, for each country.

If we want to reverse climate change, then we must draw attention to climate change issues wherever possible. Posting this data along with other important information in all country's tables of data in their respective wiki articles would be an easy and helpful step in the right direction.

Gil Brown vkbrowniii@cox.net 2600:1010:B066:1EB7:757B:4FCC:1FAC:5DEC (talk) 05:10, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

11.5 years

That's how long it appears this article has incorrectly stated Palau is a unitary state. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 11:02, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 15:17, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction. 4th smallest country?

It is written in the introduction: "It has a total area of 466 square kilometers (180 sq mi), making it the fourth smallest country in the world." I count 15 country members of UN which are smaller than Palau. List of countries and dependencies by area. So, I guess this statement is wrong Cazaux (talk) 13:11, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]