Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 2,303 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.04% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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