French Polynesia
French Polynesia is a collection of over 100 islands halfway between California and Australia in the South Pacific Ocean. It is an overseas country governed by France.Tap on the map to travel |
Popular Destinations
Marquesas Islands
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The Marquesas Islands are an archipelago of about a dozen islands in French Polynesia, most with steep mountains.
Papeete
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Papeete is the largest city in and capital of French Polynesia on the island of Tahiti.
Bora Bora
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Bora Bora is a volcanic island in the Society Islands archipelago of French Polynesia.
Destinations
Tuamotu Islands
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The Tuamotu Archipelago or the Tuamotu Islands are a French Polynesian chain of just under 80 islands and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Austral Islands
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The Austral Islands are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, an overseas country of the French Republic in the South Pacific.
Gambier Islands
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The Gambier Islands are a group of small volcanic islands surrounded by coral reefs in the southeast extreme of the Tuamotu Islands archipelago of French Polynesia.
French Polynesia
- Type: State with 268,000 residents
- Description: French overseas country in the southern Pacific Ocean
- Languages: French and Tahitian
- Categories: French overseas collectivity, overseas territory and locality
- Location: Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
-17.7173° or 17° 43' 2" southLongitude of centre
-149.3811° or 149° 22' 52" westPopulation
268,000Area
4,167 km² (1,609 miles²)Capital
PapeeteCurrency
Franc (XPF)Phone code
.pfInternet domain
689OpenStreetMap ID
node 462226505OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
4030656Wikidata ID
Q30971French Polynesia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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: Polinesya Fransesa
- Arabic: بولونيزيا الفرنسية
- Arabic: بولينزيا الفرنسية
- Arabic: بولينزيا الفرنسيه
- 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
- 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 Frañs
- Breton: Polinezia c'hall
- Breton: Polinezia cʼhall
- 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
- English: pf
- 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: 987
- 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 - Polynésie française
- 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: PYF
- German: Polynesie française
- German: Polynésie française
- Greek: Γαλλική Πολυνησία
- Guianese Creole French: Polinézi fransé
- Gujarati: ફ્રેંચ પોલિનેશિયા
- Hakka Chinese: Fap-koet liâng Polynesia
- Hausa: Fap-koet liâng Polynesia
- Hausa: Folinesiya Ta Faransa
- Hausa: Polenekia Palani
- Hawaiian: Polenekia Palani
- Hebrew: פולינזיה הצרפתית
- Hindi: फ़्रान्सीसी पॉलिनेशिया
- Hindi: फ़्रान्सीसी पोलीनेशिया
- Hindi: फ़्रेंच पोलिनेशिया
- Hindi: फ्रेंच 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: Polinèsia Prancis
- Javanese: Polinésia Prancis
- Kannada: ಫ್ರೆಂಚ್ ಪಾಲಿನೇಷ್ಯಾ
- Kannada: ಫ್ರೆಂಚ್ ಪೋಲಿನೇಶಿಯಾ
- Kashmiri: فرانسی پولِنیشِیا
- Kazakh: Франсия Полинезиясы
- Kazakh: Франция Полинезиясы
- Kazakh: Француз Полинезиясы
- Khmer: ប៉ូលីណេស៊ីបារាំង
- Kikuyu: Polinesia ya Ufaransa
- Kinyarwanda: Polinesiya Nyamfaransa
- Kirghiz: Полинезия (франциялык)
- Kirghiz: Полинезия
- Kirghiz: Франция полинезиясы
- Korean: 프랑스령 폴리네시아
- Kurdish: Polînezyaya Fransî
- Lao: ເຟຣນຊ໌ ໂພລິນີເຊຍ
- Latin: Polynesia Francica
- Latin: Polynesia Francogallica
- Latin: Polynesia Gallica
- Latvian: Francijas Polinēzija
- Latvian: Franču Polinēzija
- Latvian: PYF
- Ligurian: Polinesia Franseise
- Ligurian: Polinesia Françeise
- Ligurian: Polinesia Françèise
- 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: Polynezia frantsay
- Malagasy: Pôlinezia Frantsay
- Malay: French Polynesia
- Malay: Perancis Polynesia
- Malay: Polinesia Perancis
- Malay: Polynesia Perancis
- Malayalam: ഫ്രഞ്ച് പോളിനേഷ്യ
- Maltese: Polineżja Franċiża
- Maori: Porinīhia Wīwī
- Maori: Porinīhia mau-wiwi
- Maori: Porinīhia wiwi
- Marathi: फ्रेंच पॉलिनेशिया
- 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: Fransk Polynesia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Fransk Polynesia
- Norwegian Bokmål: PYF
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Fransk Polynesia
- Occitan (post 1500): Polinesia Francesa
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Frencisc Polynesia
- Oriya: ଫ୍ରେଞ୍ଚ ପଲିନେସିଆ
- Ossetian: Францы Полинези
- Pampanga: French Polynesia
- Panjabi: ਫਰੈਂਚ ਪੋਲੀਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ
- Panjabi: ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸੀਸੀ ਪਾਲੀਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ
- Persian: پلینزی فرانسه
- Persian: پلی نزی فرانسه
- Persian: پلینزی فرانسه
- Persian: پولنزی فرانسه
- Persian: پولینزیای فرانسه
- Persian: پولینزی فرانسه
- Persian: پولینزی فرانسه
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: French Poliinesya
- Polish: Polinezja Francuska
- Portuguese: Polinésia Francesa
- Portuguese: Pōrīnetia Farāni
- Portuguese: Território Polinésia Francesa
- Pushto: د فرانسې پولینزي
- 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: Prancūzijės Polėnezijė
- Samogitian: Prancūzėjės Polinezėjė
- Samogitian: Prancūzėjės Polėnezėjė
- 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: Polinesyang Pranses
- Tagalog: Pranses na Polinesya
- Tagalog: Pranses na Polynesia
- 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: ఫ్రెంచ్ పాలినేసియా
- Telugu: ఫ్రెంచ్ పోలినీషియా
- Thai: French Polynesia
- Thai: พอลินีเชียฝรั่งเศส
- Thai: เฟรนช์พอลินีเชีย
- Thai: เฟรนช์โปลินีเซีย
- 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
- Vietnamese: Polynesia thuộc Pháp
- Vietnamese: Polynésie thuộc Pháp
- Võro: Prantsusõ Polüneesiä
- Waray (Philippines): French Polynesia
- Welsh: Polynesia Ffrainc
- Welsh: Polynesia Ffrengig
- Welsh: Polynésie française
- Western Frisian: Frans-Polynesië
- 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
- French Establishments in Oceania
- French Oceania
- French Settlements in Oceania
- Polinesia Françeize
- Établissements Français de l’ Océanie
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