French Polynesia is about 79 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 1.26% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (33.6 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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