Country size comparison
compared to
French Polynesia is about 45 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 2.22% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (21.3 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
French Polynesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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