Tahiti
Tahiti lies in the South Pacific. It is the largest of the 118 islands and atolls that comprise French Polynesia. Tahiti is in the Society Islands, an archipelago which includes the islands of Bora Bora, Raiatea, Taha'a, Huahine and Moorea, and has a population of 190,000 people, about 83% of whom are of Polynesian ancestry.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Papeete and Fa’a’ā.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marae.
Tahiti
- Island with about 178,000 residents
- Description: island in the Southern Pacific Ocean
- Also known as“Île Tahiti”“Isla de Amat”“King George III’s Island”“La Nouvelle Cythère”“Otaheitee”“Taïti”
- Category: volcanic island
- Location
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Latitude
-17.656° or 17° 39′ 22″ south
Longitude
-149.4192° or 149° 25′ 9″ west
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Tahiti” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Tahiti”
- Afrikaans: “Tahiti”
- Albanian: “Tahiti”
- Amis: “Tahiti”
- Arabic: “تاهيتى”
- Arabic: “تاهيتي”
- Armenian: “Տահիտի”
- Asturian: “Tahití”
- Azerbaijani: “Taiti”
- Balinese: “Tahiti”
- Basque: “Tahiti”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Таіці”
- Belarusian: “Таіці”
- Bengali: “তাহিতি”
- Bosnian: “Tahiti”
- Breton: “Tahiti”
- Bulgarian: “Таити”
- Cajun French: “Tahiti”
- Catalan: “Nova Citera”
- Catalan: “Tahití”
- Cebuano: “Tahiti (pulo sa French Polynesia)”
- Cebuano: “Tahiti”
- Central Kurdish: “تاھیتی”
- Chinese: “塔希提”
- Chinese: “塔希提岛”
- Chinese: “大溪地”
- Chinese: “大溪地岛”
- Chinese: “大溪地島”
- Croatian: “Tahiti”
- Czech: “Tahiti”
- Danish: “Tahiti”
- Dutch: “Otaheite”
- Dutch: “Tahiti”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاهيتى”
- Esperanto: “Tahiti”
- Esperanto: “Tahitio”
- Estonian: “Tahiti”
- Extremaduran: “Tahiti”
- Faroese: “Tahiti”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tahiti”
- Finnish: “Tahiti”
- French: “Île de Tahiti”
- French: “Otahiti”
- French: “Tahiti”
- Galician: “Tahití”
- Georgian: “ტაიტი”
- German: “Otaheite”
- German: “Tahiti”
- Greek: “Ταϊτή”
- Gujarati: “તહિતી”
- Hawaiian: “Kahiki”
- Hawaiian: “Tahiti”
- Hebrew: “טאהיטי”
- Hebrew: “טהיטי”
- Hindi: “ताहिती”
- Hungarian: “Tahiti”
- Icelandic: “Tahítí”
- Ido: “Tahiti”
- Indonesian: “Tahiti”
- Interlingue: “Tahiti”
- Irish: “Taihítí”
- Italian: “Tahiti”
- Japanese: “タヒチ”
- Japanese: “タヒチ島”
- Jèrriais: “Tahiti”
- Kannada: “ಟಹೀಟಿ”
- Kazakh: “Таити аралы”
- Kazakh: “Таити”
- Kirghiz: “Таити”
- Korean: “타이티 섬”
- Korean: “타히티 섬”
- Korean: “타히티”
- Latin: “Tahiti”
- Latin: “Tahitia”
- Latvian: “Tahiti”
- Latvian: “Taiti”
- Limburgan: “Tahiti”
- Lithuanian: “Taitis”
- Luxembourgish: “Tahiti”
- Macedonian: “Тахити”
- Malagasy: “Tahiti”
- Malay: “Tahiti”
- Malayalam: “Tahiti”
- Malayalam: “തഹീതി”
- Maori: “Tahiti”
- Marathi: “ताहिती”
- Mazanderani: “تاهیتی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tahiti”
- Mingrelian: “ტაიტი”
- Mongolian: “Тахити”
- Northern Frisian: “Tahiti”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tahiti”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tahitiar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tahitier”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Otaheiti”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tahiti”
- Norwegian: “Tahiti”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tahiti”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tahitīeg”
- Ossetian: “Таити”
- Papiamento: “Tahiti”
- Persian: “تاهیتی”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tahitii”
- Polish: “Otaheiti”
- Polish: “Tahiti”
- Portuguese: “Tahiti”
- Portuguese: “Taiti”
- Romanian: “Tahiti”
- Russian: “Таити”
- Samoan: “Tahiti”
- Scots: “Tahiti”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tahiti”
- Serbian: “Тахити”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tahiti”
- Sicilian: “Tahiti”
- Sinhala: “ටහිටි”
- Slovak: “Tahiti”
- Slovenian: “Tahiti”
- Somali: “Tahiti”
- Spanish: “Otaheite”
- Spanish: “Tahití”
- Swahili: “Tahiti”
- Swedish: “Otaheiti”
- Swedish: “Tahiti”
- Swiss German: “Tahiti”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Tahiti”
- Tahitian: “Tahiti”
- Tajik: “Таити”
- Tamil: “டஹீடீ”
- Tamil: “டெஹீட்டி”
- Tamil: “தாகித்தி”
- Telugu: “తాహితీ”
- Thai: “Tahiti”
- Thai: “เกาะตาฮีตี”
- Thai: “ตาฮีตี”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tahisi”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tahiti”
- Turkish: “Tahiti”
- Turkmen: “Tahiti adalary”
- Tyap: “Tahiti”
- Ukrainian: “Таїті”
- Urdu: “تاہیٹی”
- Uzbek: “Taiti”
- Venetian: “Tahiti”
- Vietnamese: “Tahiti”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tahiti”
- Welsh: “Tahiti”
- Western Armenian: “Թահիթի”
- Western Frisian: “Tahity”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹاہیٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “大溪地”
- Wu Chinese: “大溪地岛”
- Yakut: “Таһити”
- Yue Chinese: “大溪地”
- Yue Chinese: “大溪地島”
- “ma Tawisi”
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”