Country size comparison
compared to
French Polynesia is about 12 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 8.15% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
French Polynesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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