Country size comparison

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French Polynesia is about 19 times smaller than South Carolina.

South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 5.34% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of South Carolina vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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