Oceania

Polynesia

Polynesia is the most far-flung, easterly region of . A collection of island paradises, many aspects of Polynesian cultures have been exported around the world through media and tourism campaigns.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include French Polynesia and Kiribati.

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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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is a remote archipelago nation in , at the equator. It consists of 33 atolls widely dispersed through 3.5 million km² of sea territory.

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is an island nation in the , part of Polynesia. It is an archipelago of 10 islands with ancient cultures, dramatic landscapes, and a variety of activities to do, such as snorkelling in 's vibrant coral gardens.

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, the "Friendly Islands", is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The tourist industry is relatively undeveloped.

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The is an island country in free association with , located in Polynesia, in the middle of the . It is an archipelago of 15 islands spread over 2.2 million km2 of ocean.

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is a U.S. territory in the South that lies about 100 km east of its neighboring country of , which is part of the same archipelago.

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is a group of low-lying islands and atolls in the South Pacific that form the fourth smallest country in the world. It is one of the most isolated and remote independent countries in the world.

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is an overseas community of consisting of two small island groupings in Polynesia, near and .

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is an island in approximately halfway between and the . With a population of only 1,600, it is one of the world's least populous countries.

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is a group of three atolls in Polynesia, north of , about halfway between proper and .

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The are a loosely grouped handful of tiny islands in the remote South Pacific, farther from any continent than any other inhabited island.

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is an uninhabited unincorporated territory of the United States—one of the smallest U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. It is in Polynesia, a region of the , north of , roughly halfway between and mainland .

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is an uninhabited island in , geographically part of the Line Islands. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States.

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is an uninhabited atoll in the Line Islands in Micronesia, 1,105 mi south of , about half way between and . Its nearest neighbor is uninhabited Kingman Reef to the northwest; the nearest inhabited islands are those of .

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is an uninhabited island in Polynesia, a region of the , about half way between and . It is most notable for what didn't happen here: the arrival of Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated around-the-world flight.

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is an uninhabited atoll in Polynesia, 717 nautical miles southwest of , about one-third of the way to the .

Polynesia

Latitude of center
1° north
Longitude of center
-152° or 152° west
Population
2,230,000
Wiki­data ID
Q35942
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Polynesia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Polinesia”
  • Afrikaans: “Polinesie”
  • Afrikaans: “Polinesië”
  • Afrikaans: “Polynesia”
  • Albanian: “Polinezia”
  • Amharic: “ፖሊኔዥያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πολυνησία”
  • Arabic: “بولنيزيا”
  • Arabic: “بولنيسيا”
  • Arabic: “بولينيزيا”
  • Arabic: “بولينيسيا”
  • Armenian: “Պոլինեզիա”
  • Arpitan: “Polinèsia”
  • Arpitan: “Polinèsie”
  • Asturian: “Polinesia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Polineziya”
  • Balinese: “Polinésia”
  • Basque: “Polinesia”
  • Bavarian: “Polynesien”
  • Belarusian: “Палінезія”
  • Belarusian: “Палінэзія”
  • Bengali: “পলিনেশিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “পলিনেশিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Polinezija”
  • Breton: “Polinezia”
  • Bulgarian: “Полинезия”
  • Catalan: “Polinèsia”
  • Catalan: “Polinesis”
  • Central Bikol: “Polinesya”
  • Chinese: “Polynesia”
  • Chinese: “波利尼西亚”
  • Chinese: “波利尼西亚群岛”
  • Chinese: “波利尼西亞”
  • Chinese: “波里尼西亞”
  • Chinese: “玻利尼西亚”
  • Chinese: “玻利尼西亞”
  • Chinese: “玻里尼西亚”
  • Chinese: “玻里尼西亞”
  • Chuvash: “Полинези”
  • Corsican: “Polinesia”
  • Corsican: “Pulinesia”
  • Croatian: “Polinezija”
  • Czech: “Polynésie”
  • Czech: “Polynézie”
  • Danish: “Polynesien”
  • Dutch: “Polinesie”
  • Dutch: “Polinesië”
  • Dutch: “Polynesie”
  • Dutch: “Polynesië”
  • Dutch: “Polynesiers”
  • Dutch: “Polynesiërs”
  • Dutch: “Polynesische”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولينيزيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پولينيزيا”
  • Esperanto: “Polinezia Triangulo”
  • Esperanto: “Polinezio”
  • Estonian: “Polüneesia”
  • Faroese: “Polynesia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Polynesia”
  • Fijian: “Polinisia”
  • Finnish: “Polyneesia”
  • Finnish: “Polynesia”
  • French: “Polynesie”
  • French: “Polynésie”
  • French: “Polynésiens”
  • French: “Triangle polynésien”
  • Galician: “Polinesia”
  • Georgian: “პოლინეზია”
  • German: “Polynesien”
  • Greek: “Πολυνησία”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Polinézi”
  • Hawaiian: “Polenekia”
  • Hebrew: “פולינזי”
  • Hebrew: “פולינזיה”
  • Hebrew: “פולינזים”
  • Hindi: “पोलिनिशिया”
  • Hindi: “पोलिनीशिया”
  • Hindi: “पोलीनेशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Polinézia”
  • Icelandic: “Pólýnesía”
  • Ido: “Polinezia”
  • Igbo: “Polynesia”
  • Iloko: “Polinesia”
  • Indonesian: “Polinesia”
  • Interlingua: “Polynesia”
  • Interlingue: “Polinesia”
  • Irish: “An Pholainéis”
  • Italian: “Polinesia”
  • Japanese: “ポリネシア”
  • Japanese: “ポリネシアン”
  • Javanese: “Polinésia”
  • Javanese: “Polynesia”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Полинезия”
  • Kazakh: “Полинезия”
  • Kinaray-A: “Polinesya”
  • Kinaray-A: “Polinisya”
  • Kirghiz: “Полинезия”
  • Korean: “뽈리네시아”
  • Korean: “폴리네시아”
  • Kotava: “Polinesia”
  • Kurdish: “Polînezya”
  • Lao: “ໂປລີເນຊີ”
  • Latin: “Polynesia”
  • Latvian: “Polinēzija”
  • Ligurian: “Polinesia”
  • Limburgan: “Polynesië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Polinesia”
  • Lithuanian: “Polinezija”
  • Macedonian: “Полинезија”
  • Malagasy: “Polinezia”
  • Malagasy: “Pôlinezia”
  • Malay: “Polinesia”
  • Malay: “Polynesia”
  • Malayalam: “Polynesia”
  • Malayalam: “പോളിനേഷ്യ”
  • Maltese: “Polinesja”
  • Maori: “Porinīhia”
  • Maori: “Poronēhia”
  • Maori: “Poronihia”
  • Marathi: “पॉलिनेशिया”
  • Mazanderani: “پلی‌نزی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Polynesia”
  • Minangkabau: “Polinesia”
  • Mingrelian: “პოლინეზია”
  • Nepali: “पोलिनेसिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Polyneesien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Polynesia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Polynesiar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Polynesier”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Polinesia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Polynesia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Polynesiar”
  • Norwegian: “Polynesia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Polinesia”
  • Ossetian: “Полинези”
  • Paiwan: “pulinisiya”
  • Pampanga: “Polynesia”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਲੀਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੌਲੀਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Polinesia”
  • Persian: “پلی نزی”
  • Persian: “پلینزی”
  • Persian: “پلی‌نزی”
  • Persian: “پولی نزی”
  • Persian: “پولی‌نزی”
  • Persian: “پولینزی”
  • Polish: “Polinezja”
  • Portuguese: “Polinesia”
  • Portuguese: “Polinésia”
  • Portuguese: “Polinésio”
  • Portuguese: “Povos polinésios”
  • Quechua: “Pulinisya”
  • Romanian: “Polinezia”
  • Russian: “Полинезия”
  • Sakizaya: “Polinisiya “Polynesia””
  • Samoan: “Polenisia”
  • Samogitian: “Polėnezėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Polinezėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Polinėzėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Polinèsia”
  • Scots: “Polynesia”
  • Scots: “Polynesie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “na h-Ioma-Eileanan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Poilinèis”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Polinìsia”
  • Serbian: “Полинезија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Polinezija”
  • Sicilian: “Pulinesia”
  • Silesian: “Polinezyjŏ”
  • Slovak: “Polynézia”
  • Slovenian: “Polinezija”
  • Spanish: “Polinesia”
  • Spanish: “Polinesio”
  • Spanish: “Polinesios”
  • Spanish: “Polynesia”
  • Spanish: “Triangulo Polinesio”
  • Swahili: “Polynesia”
  • Swedish: “Polyneser”
  • Swedish: “Polynesien”
  • Swedish: “Polynesier”
  • Swedish: “Polynesisk”
  • Swiss German: “Polynesie”
  • Tagalog: “Polinesya”
  • Tagalog: “Polynesia”
  • Tahitian: “Pōrīnetia”
  • Tajik: “Полинезия”
  • Tamil: “பாலினிசா”
  • Tamil: “பொலினீசியா”
  • Tamil: “பொலினேசியா”
  • Tatar: “Полинезия”
  • Telugu: “పాలినేషియా”
  • Thai: “Polynesia”
  • Thai: “โปลีนีเซีย”
  • Thai: “พอลินีเชีย”
  • Thai: “พอลินีเซีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Polynesien”
  • Turkish: “Doğu Polinezya”
  • Turkish: “Polinezya Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Polinezya”
  • Turkmen: “Polineziýa”
  • Ukrainian: “Полінезія”
  • Urdu: “پولینیشیا”
  • Uzbek: “Polineziya”
  • Venetian: “Połinezia”
  • Vietnamese: “Polynesia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Polynesia”
  • Welsh: “Polynesia”
  • Western Frisian: “Polyneesje”
  • Western Frisian: “Polyneezje”
  • Western Mari: “Полинези”
  • Western Panjabi: “پولینیشیا”
  • Wolof: “Polineesi”
  • Wu Chinese: “波利尼西亞”
  • Yiddish: “פאלינעזיע”
  • Yoruba: “Polinésíà”
  • Yoruba: “Polynesia”
  • Yue Chinese: “波利尼西亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Polynesië”
  • “Polinezėjė”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Polynesia”. Photo: Jnarboux, CC BY-SA 3.0.