Country size comparison

compared to

French Polynesia is about 308 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.32% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (17.7 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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