French Polynesia is about 247 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.4% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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