French Polynesia is about 31 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 3.2% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (6.0 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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