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Papeete

Papeete is the capital city of , 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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  • Type: City with 26,100 residents
  • Description: capital of French Polynesia
  • Also known as: “Papeiti”, “Papiete”, and “Papiti”
  • Postal code: 98714
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Pater Te Hono Nui and Notre Dame Cathedral, Papeete.

Stadium
Stade Pater is a multi-use in Pirae, , in , . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds a capacity of 11,700 people.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notre Dame Cathedral is a late 19th-century church that serves as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete. It is located close to the waterfront esplanade of the capital city on the rue du Général de Gaulle.

Church
Photo: Saga70, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a temple of in Papeete, Tahiti, . The intent to build the temple was announced on April 2, 1980, by church president Spencer W.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fa’a’ā.

Photo: FRED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Faʼaʼā is a commune in the suburbs of Papeʼete in , an overseas country of in the Pacific Ocean. Faʼaʼā is located on the island of , in the of the , themselves part of the .

Papeete

Latitude
-17.5374° or 17° 32′ 15″ south
Longitude
-149.566° or 149° 33′ 58″ west
Population
26,100
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
IATA airport code
PPT
United Nations Location Code
PF PPT
Open location code
53JGFC7M+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258513226
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4033936
Wiki­data ID
Q130800
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Papeete” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Papeete”
  • Arabic: “بابيت”
  • Arabic: “بابيتي”
  • Aragonese: “Papeete”
  • Armenian: “Պապեետե”
  • Arpitan: “Papeete”
  • Asturian: “Papeete”
  • Azerbaijani: “Papeete”
  • Bambara: “Papeete”
  • Basque: “Papeete”
  • Bavarian: “Papeete”
  • Belarusian: “Папеэтэ”
  • Belarusian: “Папээтэ”
  • Bengali: “পাপেএতে”
  • Bengali: “পাপেতে”
  • Bosnian: “Papeete”
  • Breton: “Pape‘ete”
  • Breton: “Pape’ete”
  • Bulgarian: “Папеете”
  • Cajun French: “Papeete”
  • Catalan: “Pape’ete”
  • Catalan: “Papeete”
  • Catalan: “Vaiete”
  • Cebuano: “Papeete”
  • Chechen: “Папеэте”
  • Chinese: “巴比提”
  • Chinese: “帕皮提”
  • Corsican: “Papeete”
  • Croatian: “Papeete”
  • Czech: “Papeete”
  • Danish: “Papeete”
  • Dutch: “Papeete”
  • Esperanto: “Papeete”
  • Esperanto: “Papeeto”
  • Esperanto: “Papito”
  • Estonian: “Papeete”
  • Faroese: “Papeete”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Papeete”
  • Finnish: “Papeete”
  • French: “COMMUNE DE PAPEETE”
  • French: “Papeete”
  • Friulian: “Papeete”
  • Galician: “Papeete”
  • Georgian: “პაპეეტე”
  • German: “Papeete”
  • Greek: “Papeete”
  • Greek: “Παπεέτε”
  • Gujarati: “પપીટે”
  • Hawaiian: “Papeʻete”
  • Hebrew: “פפאטה”
  • Hindi: “पापीटे”
  • Hungarian: “Papeete”
  • Icelandic: “Papeete”
  • Ido: “Papeete”
  • Indonesian: “Papeete”
  • Interlingua: “Papeete”
  • Interlingue: “Papeete”
  • Irish: “Pape’ete”
  • Italian: “Papeete”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Papeete”
  • Japanese: “パペーテ”
  • Japanese: “パペエテ”
  • Kabyle: “Papeete”
  • Kalaallisut: “Papeete”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾಪೀಟೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Папеэте”
  • Kongo: “Papeete”
  • Korean: “파페에테”
  • Korean: “파피에테”
  • Latin: “Papeete”
  • Latvian: “Papeete”
  • Latvian: “Papeetē”
  • Ligurian: “Papeete”
  • Limburgan: “Papeete”
  • Lithuanian: “Papeetė”
  • Lithuanian: “Papetė”
  • Low German: “Papeete”
  • Luxembourgish: “Papeete”
  • Macedonian: “Папете”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Papeete”
  • Malagasy: “Papeete”
  • Malay: “Papeete”
  • Maltese: “Papeete”
  • Marathi: “पापीत”
  • Marathi: “पापीती”
  • Minangkabau: “Papeete”
  • Narom: “Papeete”
  • Neapolitan: “Papeete”
  • Northern Frisian: “Papeete”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pape’ete”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Papeete”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Papeete”
  • Norwegian: “Papeete”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pape’ete”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pahpētig”
  • Ossetian: “Папеэте”
  • Papiamento: “Papeete”
  • Persian: “پاپه ته”
  • Persian: “پاپیته”
  • Picard: “Papeete”
  • Piemontese: “Papeete”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Papeete.”
  • Polish: “Papeete”
  • Portuguese: “Papeete”
  • Prussian: “Papeete”
  • Pushto: “پاپیت”
  • Romagnol: “Papeete”
  • Romanian: “Papeete”
  • Romansh: “Papeete”
  • Russian: “Папеэте”
  • Sakizaya: “papiti”
  • Sardinian: “Papeete”
  • Scots: “Papeete”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Papeete”
  • Serbian: “Papeete”
  • Serbian: “Papete”
  • Serbian: “Папете”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Papeete”
  • Shona: “Papeetē”
  • Sicilian: “Papeete”
  • Sinhala: “පැපීට්”
  • Slovak: “Papeete”
  • Slovenian: “Papeete”
  • Spanish: “Pape‘ete”
  • Spanish: “Papeete”
  • Swahili: “Papeete”
  • Swedish: “Papeete”
  • Swiss German: “Papeete”
  • Tahitian: “Pape’ete”
  • Tahitian: “Papeete”
  • Tajik: “Папеэте”
  • Tamil: “பப்பேத்தே”
  • Tatar: “Папеэте”
  • Telugu: “పాపీట్”
  • Thai: “ปาปีติ”
  • Thai: “ปาเปเอเต”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pape’ete”
  • Turkish: “Papeete”
  • Ukrainian: “Папеете”
  • Urdu: “پاپیٹی”
  • Venetian: “Papeete”
  • Vietnamese: “Papeete”
  • Vlaams: “Papeete”
  • Volapük: “Papeete”
  • Walloon: “Papeete”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Papeete”
  • Welsh: “Papeete”
  • Welsh: “Papetee”
  • Western Frisian: “Papeete”
  • Western Panjabi: “پاپیٹی”
  • Wolof: “Papeete”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕皮提”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴比提”
  • Zulu: “Papeete”
  • “Papeete”

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