Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 28 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 3.52% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.5 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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