French Polynesia is about 30 times smaller than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 3.3% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.2 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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