Country size comparison
compared to
French Polynesia is about 293 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km,
while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making
French Polynesia 0.34% the size of South Africa.
Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people
(57.2 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
French Polynesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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