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Polynésie Française
National motto: None
Official language French
Political status Dependent territory
Capital Papeete
Largest City Papeete
President Oscar Temaru
Area
 - Total
 - % water

4,167 km²
12%
Population

 - Total ( 2002)
 - Density


245,405
64/km²
Currency CFP francThe CFP franc (in French: franc Pacifique or franc CFP ; CFP stood for Colonies francaises du Pacifique (i. French colonies of the Pacific") and is now standing for Change franc Pacifique (i. Pacific franc exchange"); ISO 4217 currency code: XPF is a curr
Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t UTC -10
Internet TLDA top-level domain TLD is the last part of which Internet domain names consist of. For example, in the domain name wikipedia. org the top-level domain is org (or ORG, as domain names are not case-sensitive). The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) .pf
Calling CodeThis is a list of country calling codes also known as international direct dialing (IDD) codes, which are needed to access international telephone services. The numbers are assigned by the International Telecommunication Union in standard E. The numbers a 689


French Polynesia is a French overseas "country" ( French: pays d'outre-mer , or POM) in the southern Pacific OceanFor other meanings of pacific see pacific (disambiguation). The Pacific Ocean (from the Spanish Pacifico meaning peaceful is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179. 7 million km² (69. 4 mill. It is made up of several groups of PolynesiaPolynesia (from Greek, "many islands") is a large grouping of over 1,000 islands in the central and southern Pacific Ocean. Geographically, Polynesia is a triangle with its three corners at Hawai'i, New Zealand, and Easter Island. Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Marqn islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populated island, and the seat of the capital of the territory ( Papeete).

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Between 1946 and 2003, French Polynesia had the status of an overseas territory ( French: territoire d'outre-mer, or TOM). In 2003 and beginning of 2004 it was briefly an overseas collectivity ( French: collectivité d'outre-mer , or COM). The new status of overseas "country" gives a large autonomy to the territory, while remaining part of the French Republic.





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