Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 422 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.24% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (6.8 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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