French Polynesia is about 141 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.71% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (27.9 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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