Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 42 times smaller than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 2.36% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (3.1 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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