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Area of French overseas territories compared to metropolitan France. (vividmaps.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL you can fit the whole of Polynésie in like a fifth of the area of France. I can only guess it just counts landmass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, French Polynesia would normally span about the distance between Barcelona and Helsinki, approx 2,500km.

[–] Floufym 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

*French colonies