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).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.