Country size comparison

compared to

French Polynesia is about 572 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.17% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (43.9 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
Share
Compare further: French Polynesia vs. Algeria
Flip Comparison · See true size
See French Polynesia on top of Algeria
→
Quality of Life Comparison · 5 statistics
Be 72.1% less likely to live below the poverty line in Algeria
→
Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Algeria is 65.6% cheaper than French Polynesia overall
→