Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 227 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 0.44% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.6 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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