French Polynesia is about 64 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 1.57% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (352,915 fewer people live in French Polynesia).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. French Polynesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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