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Geography of French Polynesia
This article describes the 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
- Map references
- Oceania
- Area
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- Total: 4,167 km² (118 islands and atolls)
- Land: 3,660 km²
- Water: 507 km²
- Land boundaries
- 0 km
- Coastline
- 2,525 km
- Maritime claims
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- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
- Territorial sea: 12 nm
- Climate
- Tropical, but moderate
- Terrain
- 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
- 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
- NA km²
- Natural hazards
- Occasional cyclonic storms in January
- Environment - current issues
- NA
- Geography - note
- 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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