Country size comparison
compared to
French Polynesia is about 247 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.4% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
French Polynesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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