French Polynesia is about 17 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 5.81% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.4 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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