French Polynesia is about 12 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 8.15% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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