Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 111 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.9% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.3 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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