French Polynesia is about 28 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 3.54% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (5.9 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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