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French Polynesia

French Polynesia is a collection of over 100 islands halfway between California and Australia in the . It is an overseas country governed by .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Marquesas Islands and Papeete.

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The are an archipelago of about a dozen islands in French Polynesia, most with steep mountains.

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is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Papeʻetē is located on the island of , in the administrative subdivision of the , of which Papeʻetē is the administrative capital.

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is a volcanic island in the archipelago of French Polynesia. The Polynesian island in the South Pacific is ranked at the top of the list when it comes to most remarkably beautiful in the world. The best time to visit is May.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Society Islands and Tuamotu Islands.

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The are an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean that includes the major islands of , Moʻorea, Raiatea, and . Politically, they are part of French Polynesia, an overseas country of the .

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The Tuamotu Archipelago or the are a French Polynesian chain of just under 80 and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean. They constitute the largest chain of atolls in the world, extending over an area roughly the size of Western Europe.

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The are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, an overseas country of the in the . Geographically, they consist of two separate archipelagos, namely in the northwest the Tupua'i islands consisting…

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The are a group of small volcanic islands surrounded by coral reefs in the southeast extreme of the archipelago of French Polynesia.
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French Polynesia

Latitude of center
-17.7173° or 17° 43′ 2″ south
Longitude of center
-149.3811° or 149° 22′ 52″ west
Population
268,000
Area
4,167 km² (1,609 miles²)
Capital
Currency
Franc (XPF)
Phone code
.pf
Internet domain
689
Open­Street­Map ID
node 462226505
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4030656
Wiki­data ID
Q30971
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“French Polynesia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Polinesia Peurancih”
  • Afrikaans: “Frans-Polinesië”
  • Afrikaans: “Frans-Polynesië”
  • Afrikaans: “Franse Polinesië”
  • Afrikaans: “Franse Polynesia”
  • Afrikaans: “Polynésie française”
  • Akan: “Frɛnkye Pɔlenehyia”
  • Albanian: “Polinezia franceze”
  • Albanian: “Polinezia Franceze”
  • Amharic: “የፈረንሳይ ፖሊኔዢያ”
  • Amharic: “የፈረንሳይ ፖሊኔዥያ”
  • Angika: “फ्रांसिसी पॉलीनेशिया”
  • Arabic: “بولنيزيا الفرنسية”
  • Arabic: “بولونيزيا الفرنسية”
  • Arabic: “بولينسيا الفرنسية”
  • Arabic: “بولينيزيا الفرنسية”
  • Arabic: “بولينيسيا الفرنسية”
  • Aragonese: “Polinesia Francesa”
  • Aragonese: “Polinesia franzesa”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրանսիական Պոլինեզիա”
  • Arpitan: “Polinèsie francêsa”
  • Assamese: “ফ্ৰান্স পোলেনচিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Polinesia Francesa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fransa Polineziyası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fransız Polineziyası”
  • Balinese: “Polinésia Prancis”
  • Bambara: “Faransi ka polinezi”
  • Bashkir: “Франция Полинезияһы”
  • Basque: “Fantziar Polinesia”
  • Basque: “Frantses Polinesia”
  • Basque: “Frantziar Polinesia”
  • Basque: “Polinesia Frantses”
  • Basque: “Polinesia Frantsesa”
  • Belarusian: “Французская Палінезія”
  • Belarusian: “Француская Палінэзія”
  • Bengali: “ফরাসি পলিনেশিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ফরাসী পলিনেশিয়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “फ्रेंच पोलिनेशिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফ্যাঞ্চ পলিনেসিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Francuska Polinezija”
  • Breton: “Polinezia c’hall”
  • Breton: “Polinezia C’hall”
  • Breton: “Polinezia cʼhall”
  • Breton: “Polinezia Frañs”
  • Bulgarian: “Френска Полинезия”
  • Burmese: “ပြင်သစ် ပေါ်လီနီးရှား”
  • Burmese: “ပြင်သစ် ပေါ်လီနေးရှား”
  • Catalan: “Polinèsia Francesa”
  • Catalan: “Polynésie française”
  • Catalan: “Tahiti Nui”
  • Cebuano: “French Polynesia”
  • Central Bikol: “French Polynesia”
  • Chechen: “Французийн Полинези”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏂᎦᎸᏥ ᏆᎵᏂᏏᎠ”
  • Cheyenne: “French Polynesia”
  • Chinese: “Hoat-kok léng Polynesia”
  • Chinese: “法属波利尼西亚”
  • Chinese: “法属玻利尼西亚”
  • Chinese: “法属玻里尼西亚”
  • Chinese: “法屬波利尼西亞”
  • Chinese: “法屬波利尼西亞群島”
  • Chinese: “法屬波里尼西亞”
  • Chinese: “法屬玻里尼西亞”
  • Cornish: “Polynesi Frenkek”
  • Cornish: “Polynesi Frynkek”
  • Corsican: “Polinesia francese”
  • Corsican: “Pulinesia francese”
  • Croatian: “Francuska Polinezija”
  • Croatian: “Polynésie française”
  • Czech: “Francouzská Polynésie”
  • Danish: “Fransk Polynesien”
  • Dhivehi: “ފަރަންސޭސި ޕޮލިނޭޝިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Polinezyay Fransa”
  • Dutch: “Frans Polynesie”
  • Dutch: “Frans Polynesië”
  • Dutch: “Frans-Polynesie”
  • Dutch: “Frans-Polynesië”
  • Dutch: “PF”
  • Dutch: “PYF”
  • Dzongkha: “ཕྲཱནས྄་ཀྱི་པོ་ལི་ནི་ཤི་ཡ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولينيزيا الفرنساويه”
  • Esperanto: “Franca Polinezio”
  • Esperanto: “PF”
  • Esperanto: “Polynésie française”
  • Estonian: “Prantsuse Polüneesia”
  • Ewe: “Frentsi Pɔlinesia nutome”
  • Faroese: “Franska Polynesia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “French Polynesia”
  • Finnish: “PYF”
  • Finnish: “Ranskalainen Polynesia”
  • Finnish: “Ranskan Polynesia”
  • French: “F-OH”
  • French: “Polynesie francaise”
  • French: “Polynésie française”
  • French: “Polynésie Française”
  • French: “Territoire de la Polynésie Française”
  • Fulah: “Polinesii Farayse”
  • Gagauz: “Franțuz Polineziyası”
  • Galician: “A Polinesia Francesa”
  • Galician: “Polinesia Francesa”
  • Ganda: “Polinesiya enfalansa”
  • Georgian: “საფრანგეთის პოლინეზია”
  • Georgian: “ფრანგული პოლინეზია”
  • German: “Französisch Ozeanien”
  • German: “Französisch Polynesien”
  • German: “Französisch-Ozeanien”
  • German: “Französisch-Polynesien”
  • German: “Polynesie française”
  • German: “Polynésie française”
  • German: “PYF”
  • Greek: “Γαλλική Πολυνησία”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Polinézi fransé”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રેંચ પોલિનેશિયા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fap-koet liâng Polynesia”
  • Hausa: “Folinesiya Ta Faransa”
  • Hawaiian: “Polenekia Palani”
  • Hebrew: “פולינזיה הצרפתית”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रान्सीसी पॉलिनेशिया”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रान्सीसी पोलीनेशिया”
  • Hindi: “फ्रेंच पोलिनेशिया”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रेंच पोलिनेशिया”
  • Hindi: “फ्रेंच पोलीनेशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Francia Polinézia”
  • Icelandic: “Franska Pólýnesía”
  • Ido: “Franca Polinezia”
  • Igbo: “Frenchi Polynesia”
  • Indonesian: “French Polynesia”
  • Indonesian: “Polinesia Prancis”
  • Indonesian: “Polynesia Perancis”
  • Interlingua: “Polynesia francese”
  • Irish: “Polainéis na Fraince”
  • Italian: “Polinesia francese”
  • Italian: “Polynésie française”
  • Japanese: “PYF”
  • Japanese: “フランス領ポリネシア”
  • Japanese: “仏領ポリネシア”
  • Javanese: “Polinesia Perancis”
  • Javanese: “Polinesia Prancis”
  • Javanese: “Polinésia Prancis”
  • Javanese: “Polinèsia Prancis”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೆಂಚ್ ಪಾಲಿನೇಷ್ಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೆಂಚ್ ಪೋಲಿನೇಶಿಯಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “فرانسی پولِنیشِیا”
  • Kazakh: “Франсия Полинезиясы”
  • Kazakh: “Франция Полинезиясы”
  • Kazakh: “Француз Полинезиясы”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ូលី​ណេស៊ី​បារាំង”
  • Kikuyu: “Polinesia ya Ufaransa”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Polinesiya Nyamfaransa”
  • Kirghiz: “Полинезия (франциялык)”
  • Kirghiz: “Полинезия”
  • Kirghiz: “Франция полинезиясы”
  • Kirghiz: “Француз Полинезиясы”
  • Korean: “프랑스령 폴리네시아”
  • Kurdish: “Polînezyaya Fransî”
  • Lao: “French Polynesia”
  • Lao: “Polynesia French”
  • Lao: “ໂປລີເນຊີ ຝຣັ່ງ”
  • Lao: “ຝຣັ່ງ ໂປລີເນຊີ”
  • Lao: “ເຟຣນຊ໌ ໂພລິນີເຊຍ”
  • Latin: “Polynesia Francica”
  • Latin: “Polynesia Francogallica”
  • Latin: “Polynesia Gallica”
  • Latvian: “Francijas Polinēzija”
  • Latvian: “Franču Polinēzija”
  • Latvian: “PYF”
  • Ligurian: “Polinesia Françeise”
  • Ligurian: “Polinesia Françèise”
  • Ligurian: “Polinesia Françeize”
  • Ligurian: “Polinesia Franseise”
  • Limburgan: “Frans Polynesië”
  • Lingala: “Polinezi ya Falánsɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Polinesia Franses”
  • Lithuanian: “Prancūzijos Polinezija”
  • Lithuanian: “Prancūzų Polinezija”
  • Lojban: “faspolplugu’e”
  • Low German: “Franzöösch-Polynesien”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Polinezi wa Nfalanse”
  • Luxembourgish: “Franséisch-Polynesien”
  • Macedonian: “Француска Полинезија”
  • Malagasy: “Polinezia frantsay”
  • Malagasy: “Polynésie française”
  • Malagasy: “Polynezia frantsay”
  • Malay: “French Polynesia”
  • Malay: “Perancis Polynesia”
  • Malay: “Polinesia Perancis”
  • Malay: “Polynesia Perancis”
  • Malayalam: “ഫ്രഞ്ച് പോളിനേഷ്യ”
  • Maltese: “Polineżja Franċiża”
  • Maori: “Porinīhia mau-wiwi”
  • Maori: “Porinīhia wiwi”
  • Maori: “Porinīhia Wīwī”
  • Marathi: “फ्रेंच पॉलिनेशिया”
  • Mazanderani: “فرانسه پلی‌نزی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Huák-guók liāng Polynesia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hoat-kok Polynesia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hoat-kok Polynésie”
  • Mongolian: “Францын Полинез”
  • Nepali: “फ्रान्सेली पोलिनेसिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Pholinesiya ye Fulansi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fransöösk Polyneesien”
  • Northern Sami: “Frankriikka Polynesia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fransk Polynesia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “PYF”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fransk Polynesia”
  • Norwegian: “Fransk Polynesia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Polinesia Francesa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Frencisc Polynesia”
  • Oriya: “ଫ୍ରେଞ୍ଚ ପଲିନେସିଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Францы Полинези”
  • Pampanga: “French Polynesia”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸੀਸੀ ਪਾਲੀਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਫਰੈਂਚ ਪੋਲੀਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Persian: “پلی نزی فرانسه”
  • Persian: “پلی‌نزی فرانسه”
  • Persian: “پلینزی فرانسه”
  • Persian: “پولنزی فرانسه”
  • Persian: “پولی‌نزی فرانسه”
  • Persian: “پولینزی فرانسه”
  • Persian: “پولینزیای فرانسه”
  • Piemontese: “Polinesia Fransèisa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “French Poliinesya”
  • Polish: “Polinezja Francuska”
  • Portuguese: “Polinésia Francesa”
  • Portuguese: “Pōrīnetia Farāni”
  • Portuguese: “Território Polinésia Francesa”
  • Pushto: “فرانسوي پوليزيا”
  • Pushto: “فرانسوي پولينزيا”
  • Pushto: “فرانسوي پولينيسيا”
  • Quechua: “Fransis Pulinisya”
  • Quechua: “Phransis Pulinisya”
  • Quechua: “Phransya Pulinisya”
  • Quechua: “Polinesia Francesa”
  • Quechua: “Ransis Pulinisya”
  • Romanian: “Polinezia Franceză”
  • Romansh: “Polinesia Franzosa”
  • Rundi: “Polineziya y’Abafaransa”
  • Russian: “Французская Полинезия”
  • Samoan: “Farani Polenisia”
  • Samogitian: “Prancūzėjės Polėnezėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Prancūzėjės Polinezėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Prancūzijės Polėnezijė”
  • Sango: “Polinezïi tî farânzi”
  • Sardinian: “Polinèsia Frantzesa”
  • Scots: “French Polynesie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “French Polynesia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Poilinèis na Frainge”
  • Serbian: “Француска Полинезија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Francuska Polinezija”
  • Shan: “ပေႃႇလီႇၼေးသျႃး ၶွင် ၾရၢင်ႇသဵတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “French Polynesia”
  • Sicilian: “Polinesia Francisa”
  • Sicilian: “Polinesia francisi”
  • Sicilian: “Pulinesia francisa”
  • Sicilian: “Pulinesia francisi”
  • Silesian: “Francusko Polinezyjo”
  • Sindhi: “فرانسيسي پولينيشيا”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රංශ පොලිනීසියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රංශ පොලිනේසියා”
  • Slovak: “Francúzska Polynézia”
  • Slovenian: “Francoska Polinezija”
  • Somali: “Booliyneesiya Faransiiska”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فرانسه پولینزیاسی”
  • Spanish: “Francopolinesio”
  • Spanish: “Polinesia Francesa”
  • Sundanese: “Polinésia Perancis”
  • Sundanese: “Polinésia Prancis”
  • Swahili: “Polynesia ya Kifaransa”
  • Swahili: “Polynesia ya Ufaransa”
  • Swedish: “Franska Oceanien”
  • Swedish: “Franska Polynesien”
  • Swedish: “French Polynesia”
  • Tagalog: “French Polynesia”
  • Tagalog: “Polinesia Francesa”
  • Tagalog: “Polinesiyang Pranses”
  • Tahitian: “Pōrīnetia farāni”
  • Tajik: “Полинезияи Фаронса”
  • Tamil: “பிரெஞ்சு பாலினேஷியா”
  • Tamil: “பிரெஞ்சு பொலினீசியா”
  • Tamil: “பிரெஞ்சுப் பொலினேசியா”
  • Tatar: “Франсуз Полинезиясе”
  • Tatar: “Француз Полинезиясе”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రెంచి పాలినేషియా”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రెంచి పోలినీసియా”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రెంచ్ పాలినేసియా”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రెంచ్ పోలినీషియా”
  • Thai: “French Polynesia”
  • Thai: “พอลินีเชียฝรั่งเศส”
  • Thai: “เฟรนช์โปลินีเซีย”
  • Thai: “เฟรนช์พอลินีเชีย”
  • Tigrinya: “ናይ ፈረንሳይ ፖሊነዝያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Polinisia fakafalanisē”
  • Turkish: “Fransız Polinezyası”
  • Turkish: “Fransız Polonezya”
  • Turkmen: “Fransuz Polineziýasy”
  • Uighur: “Fransiyige Qarashliq Polinéziye”
  • Uighur: “فرانسىيىگە قاراشلىق پولىنېزىيە”
  • Uighur: “فىرانسىيەگە قاراشلىق پولىنېزىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Полінезія Французька”
  • Ukrainian: “Французька Полінезія”
  • Urdu: “French Polynesia”
  • Urdu: “فرانسیسی پولینیشیا”
  • Uzbek: “Fransuz Polineziyasi”
  • Venetian: “Połinezia franseze”
  • Vietnamese: “Polynesia thuộc Pháp”
  • Vietnamese: “Polynésie thuộc Pháp”
  • Võro: “Prantsusõ Polüneesiä”
  • Waray (Philippines): “French Polynesia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Polinesya Fransesa”
  • Welsh: “Polynesia Ffrainc”
  • Welsh: “Polynesia Ffrengig”
  • Welsh: “Polynésie française”
  • Western Frisian: “Frans-Polynesië”
  • Western Frisian: “Frânsk-Polyneezje”
  • Western Mari: “Франци Полинези”
  • Western Mari: “Француз Полинези”
  • Western Panjabi: “فرانسیسی پولینیشیا”
  • Wolof: “Polineesi Faraañse”
  • Wolof: “Polineesi gu Faraas”
  • Wolof: “Polinesi Farañse”
  • Wu Chinese: “法属波利尼西亚”
  • Yiddish: “פֿראַנצויזישע פּאלינעזיע”
  • Yoruba: “Firenṣi Polinesia”
  • Yoruba: “French Polynesia”
  • Yoruba: “Polinésíà Fránsì”
  • Yue Chinese: “法屬波利尼西亞”
  • Zulu: “i-French Polynesia”
  • “PF”
  • “Prancūzėjės Polinezėjė”
  • “Prantsusõ Polüneesiä”
  • “PYF”
  • “फ्रेंच पोलिनेशिया”

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