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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Papeete and Fa’a’ā.
Papeete
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Papeete is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic located in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Papeʻetē is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, of which Papeʻetē is the administrative capital.
Fa’a’ā
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Faʼaʼā is a commune in the suburbs of Papeʼete in French Polynesia, an overseas country of France in the Pacific Ocean. Faʼaʼā is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marae.
Marae
Archaeological site
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A marae, malaʻe, meʻae or malae is a communal or sacred place that serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies. In all these languages, the term also means cleared and free of weeds or trees.
Tahiti
- Type: Island with 184,000 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”, and “Taïti”
- Location: Windward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Tahiti from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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: “Востраў Таіці”
- Belarusian: “Таіці”
- Bengali: “তাহিতি”
- Bosnian: “Tahiti”
- Breton: “Tahiti”
- Bulgarian: “Таити”
- Cajun French: “Tahiti”
- Catalan: “Nova Citera”
- Catalan: “Tahiti”
- Catalan: “Tahití”
- Cebuano: “Tahiti (pulo sa French Polynesia)”
- Cebuano: “Tahiti”
- Central Kurdish: “تاھیتی”
- Chinese: “Tahiti”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಟಹೀಟಿ”
- Kazakh: “Таити аралы”
- Kazakh: “Таити”
- Kirghiz: “Таити”
- Korean: “타이티 섬”
- Korean: “타히티 섬”
- Korean: “타히티”
- Korean: “타히티섬”
- 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”
- Narom: “Tahiti”
- 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: “Tahiti”
- 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: “เกาะตาฮิติ”
- Thai: “เกาะตาฮีตี”
- Thai: “ตาฮิติ”
- Thai: “ตาฮิตี”
- Thai: “ตาฮีตี”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tahisi”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tahiti”
- Tosk Albanian: “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”
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