Country size comparison
compared to
French Polynesia is about 42 times smaller than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 2.36% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (3.1 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
French Polynesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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