Country size comparison

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New Caledonia is about 30 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 3.37% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (68.0 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
This to-scale comparison of France vs. New Caledonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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