French Polynesia is about 45 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 2.22% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (21.3 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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