French Polynesia is about 157 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.64% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.0 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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