Geography Of French Polynesia

Location	Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from South America to Australia
Geographic coordinates	15 00 S, 140 00 W
Map references	oceania
Area	total: 4,167 sq km (118 islands and atolls) water: 507 sq km land: 3,660 sq km
Area comparative	slightly less than one-third the size of Connecticut
Land boundaries	0 km
Coastline	2,525 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Climate	tropical, but moderate
Terrain	mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Orohena 2,241 m
Natural resources	timber, fish, cobalt, hydropower
Land use	arable land: 0.82% permanent crops: 5.46% other: 93.72% (2001)
Irrigated land	NA sq km
Natural hazards	occasional cyclonic storms in January
Environment - current issues	NA
Environment - international agreements
Geography note	includes five archipelagoes (4 volcanic, 1 coral); Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Nauru

Applied Language Solutions offer English to French Translation , English to Tahitian Translation .

This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

Flags

If you would like to use this flag of French Polynesia or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page. Please click here for information.

Map

If you would like to use this map of French Polynesia or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page. Please click here for information.

Country Information

If you would like to use this information for French Polynesia or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page. Please click here for information.

Translation Company