Polynesia
Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
French Polynesia
French Polynesia is a collection of over 100 islands halfway between California and Australia in the South Pacific Ocean.Kiribati
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Kiribati is an archipelago nation in Micronesia, at the equator.
Destinations
Tonga
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Tonga, the "Friendly Islands", is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited.
Cook Islands
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The Cook Islands are an island country in free association with New Zealand, located in Polynesia, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean.
American Samoa
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American Samoa is a U.S. territory in the South Pacific Ocean that lies about 100 km east of its neighboring country of Samoa, which is part of the same archipelago.
Tuvalu
Tuvalu is a group of low-lying islands and atolls in the South Pacific that form the fourth smallest country in the world.Wallis and Futuna
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Wallis and Futuna is an overseas community of France consisting of two small island groupings in Polynesia, near Fiji and Samoa.
Niue
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Niue is a self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand.
Tokelau
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Tokelau is a group of three atolls in Polynesia, north of Samoa, about halfway between New Zealand proper and Hawaii.
Pitcairn Islands
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The Pitcairn Islands are a loosely grouped handful of tiny islands in the remote South Pacific, farther from any continent than any other inhabited island.
Baker Island
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Baker Island is an uninhabited unincorporated territory of the United States—one of the smallest U.S.
Palmyra Atoll
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Palmyra Atoll is an uninhabited atoll in the Line Islands in Micronesia, 1,105 mi south of Honolulu, about half way between Hawaii and American Samoa.
Howland Island
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Howland Island is an uninhabited island in Polynesia, a region of the Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia.
Jarvis Island
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Jarvis Island is an uninhabited island in Micronesia, geographically part of the Line Islands.
Johnston Atoll
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Johnston Atoll is an uninhabited atoll in Polynesia, 717 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii, about one-third of the way to the Marshall Islands.
Polynesia
- Type: region with 2,230,000 residents
- Description: subregion of Oceania
- Categories: archipelago, group and cultural region
- Location: Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
1° northLongitude of centre
-152° or 152° westPopulation
2,230,000Wikidata ID
Q35942Polynesia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Polinesia
- Afrikaans: Polinesie
- Afrikaans: Polinesië
- Afrikaans: Polynesia
- Albanian: Polinezia
- Amharic: ፖሊኔዥያ
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Πολυνησία
- Arabic: Polynesia
- Arabic: بولنيزيا
- Arabic: بولنيسيا
- Arabic: بولينيزيا
- Arabic: بولينيسيا
- Armenian: Պոլինեզիա
- Arpitan: Polinèsia
- Arpitan: Polinèsie
- Asturian: Polinesia
- Avaric: Polinesia
- Azerbaijani: Polineziya
- Basque: Polinesia
- Bavarian: Polynesien
- Belarusian: Палінезія
- Belarusian: Палінэзія
- Bengali: পলিনেশিয়া
- Bishnupriya: পলিনেশিয়া
- Bosnian: Polinezija
- Breton: Polinezia
- Bulgarian: Полинезия
- Catalan: Polinesis
- Catalan: Polinèsia
- 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: Polynesiers
- Dutch: Polynesische
- Dutch: Polynesië
- Dutch: Polynesiërs
- Egyptian Arabic: بولينيزيا
- Egyptian Arabic: پولينيزيا
- English: Polynesian Triangle
- 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
- Hausa: Polenekia
- Hawaiian: Polenekia
- Hebrew: פולינזי
- Hebrew: פולינזיה
- Hebrew: פולינזים
- Hindi: पोलिनिशिया
- Hindi: पोलिनीशिया
- Hindi: पोलीनेशिया
- Hungarian: Polinézia
- Icelandic: Pólýnesía
- Ido: Polinezia
- Iloko: Polinesia
- Indonesian: Polinesia
- Interlingua: Polynesia
- Irish: An Pholainéis
- Italian: Polinesia
- Italian: Polinesiani
- Italian: Polinesiano
- Japanese: ポリネシア
- Japanese: ポリネシアン
- Javanese: Polinésia
- Javanese: Polynesia
- Kazakh: Полинезия
- Kinaray-A: Polinesya
- Kinaray-A: Polinisya
- Kirghiz: Полинезия
- Korean: 뽈리네시아
- Korean: 폴리네시아
- Kotava: Polinesia
- Kurdish: Polînezya
- Lao: Polinesia
- 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
- Maori: Porinīhia
- Maori: Poronihia
- Maori: Poronēhia
- Marathi: पॉलिनेशिया
- Min Nan Chinese: Polynesia
- Mingrelian: პოლინეზია
- Nepali: पोलिनेसिया
- Northern Frisian: Polyneesien
- Norwegian: Polynesia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Polynesia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Polynesiar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Polynesier
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Polinesia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Polynesia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Polynesiar
- Occitan (post 1500): Polinesia
- Paiwan: pulinisiya
- Pampanga: Polynesia
- Panjabi: ਪਾਲੀਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ
- Panjabi: ਪੌਲੀਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ
- Persian: پلی نزی
- Persian: پلینزی
- Persian: پلینزی
- Persian: پولینزی
- Persian: پولی نزی
- 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: Polinezėjė
- Samogitian: Polinėzėjė
- Samogitian: Polėnezėjė
- Sardinian: Polinèsia
- Scots: Polynesia
- Scots: Polynesie
- Scottish Gaelic: Poilinèis
- Scottish Gaelic: Polinìsia
- Scottish Gaelic: na h-Ioma-Eileanan
- 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
- Thai: Polynesia
- Thai: พอลินีเชีย
- Thai: พอลินีเซีย
- Thai: โปลีนีเซีย
- Tosk Albanian: Polynesien
- Turkish: Doğu Polinezya
- Turkish: Polinezya
- Turkish: Polinezya Adaları
- 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
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Polynesia. Photo: Jnarboux, CC BY-SA 3.0.