Country size comparison
compared to
French Polynesia is about 35 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making
French Polynesia 2.89% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(12.5 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
French Polynesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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