Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 247 times bigger than French Polynesia.
French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 24,635% larger than French Polynesia. Meanwhile, the population of French Polynesia is ~299,356 people (3.9 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
French Polynesia
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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