Country size comparison
compared to
French Polynesia is about 64 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 1.57% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (352,915 fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
French Polynesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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