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Geography of French Polynesia - Definition and Overview |
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This article describes the geography of French Polynesia.
- Location
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- Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from South America to Australia
- Geographic coordinates
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- 15° 00′ S, 140° 00&prime W
- Map references
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- Oceania
- Area
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- Total: 4,167 km² (118 islands and atolls)
- Land: 3,660 km²
- Water: 507 km²
- Land boundaries
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- 0 km
- Coastline
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- 2,525 km
- Maritime claims
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- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
- Territorial sea: 12 nm
- Climate
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- Tropical, but moderate
- Terrain
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- Mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
- Elevation extremes
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- Lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
- Highest point: Mont Orohena 2,241 m
- Natural resources
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- Timber, fish, cobalt, hydropower
- Land use
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- Arable land: 1%
- Permanent crops: 6%
- Permanent pastures: 5%
- Forests and woodland: 31%
- Other: 57% (1993 est.)
- Irrigated land
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- NA km²
- Natural hazards
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- Occasional cyclonic storms in January
- Environment - current issues
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- NA
- Geography - note
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- Includes five archipelagoes; 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
See also: French Polynesia
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