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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.
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. The commune of Papeete is located on the island of Tahiti , in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands , of which Papeete is the ...
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.
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Total population; c. 185,000 (Ethnic Tahitians worldwide) Regions with significant populations French Polynesia 178,133 (on Tahiti only, August 2007 census) United States
The a-possessives (as they contain that letter in most cases), also known as subjective possessives, ... ISBN 978-3-11-026035-9. Irwin, Geoffrey (1992).
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.
The urban area of Papeete, the capital city, has 136,771 inhabitants (2017 census). [ 43 ] At the 2017 census, 89.0% of people living in French Polynesia had been born there (up from 87.3% in 2007); 8.1% had been born in Metropolitan France (down from 9.3% in 2007); 1.2% were born elsewhere in overseas France (down from 1.4% in 2007); and 1.7% ...