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The Windward Islands (French: Îles du Vent [il dy vɑ̃]) are the eastern group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Papeete ( Tahitian : Papeʻete , pronounced [pa.pe.ʔe.te] ; old name: Vaiʻete [ 4 ] ) is the capital city of French Polynesia , an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean .
Te Parau Tinito [1] (Tahitian for 'Chinese speech') is a moribund pidgin language spoken by ethnic Chinese in Tahiti, primarily in the capital Papeete. It is losing ground to Tahitian and French, and speakers are mostly elderly.
Polynesia is one of three major cultural areas of the Pacific Ocean islands, along with Melanesia and Micronesia. Subregions (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Australasia), as well as sovereign and dependent islands of Oceania Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the Polynesian Triangle.
There are 118 islands in French Polynesia (and many more islets or motus around atolls).Four of the islands are volcanic and one island is 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.
There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing 7 percent of the 522 Oceanic languages, and 3 percent of the Austronesian family. [1] While half of them are spoken in geographical Polynesia (the Polynesian triangle ), the other half – known as Polynesian outliers – are spoken in other parts of the Pacific: from Micronesia to atolls ...
Total population; c. 185,000 (Ethnic Tahitians worldwide) Regions with significant populations French Polynesia 178,133 (on Tahiti only, August 2007 census) United States
1.1% in other foreign countries (down from 1.5% in 2007) Most people from metropolitan France live in Papeʻete and its suburbs, notably Punaʻauia , where they made up 16.8% of the population at the 2017 census, and Arue , where they made up 15.9%; these percentages do not include their children born in French Polynesia.