French Polynesia is about 16 times smaller than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 6.35% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (22.9 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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