Country size comparison
compared to
French Polynesia is about 35 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making
French Polynesia 2.88% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(2.7 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
French Polynesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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