Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 29 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 3.41% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (19.1 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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