Country size comparison

compared to

French Polynesia is about 57 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 1.76% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (7.5 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).

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