Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 97 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 1.03% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (37.0 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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