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| | Top20Palau.com - Your Top20 Guide to Palau! |
 | | Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines. |
 | | While much of Palau's fragile natural environment remains free of environmental degradation, there are several areas of concern, including illegal fishing with the use of dynamite, inadequate facilities for disposal of solid waste in Koror, and extensive sand and coral dredging in the Palau lagoon. |
 | | The population of Palau is approximately 19,000, of whom 70% are native Palauans, who are of mixed Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian descent. |
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