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French Polynesia Geography 1996

Affiliation:

(overseas territory of France)

Location:

Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from South America to Australia

Map references:

Oceania

Area:

total area:

3,941 sq km

land area:

3,660 sq km

comparative area:

slightly less than one-third the size of Connecticut

Land boundaries:

0 km

Coastline:

2,525 km

Maritime claims:

exclusive economic zone:

200 nm

territorial sea:

12 nm

International disputes:

none

Climate:

tropical, but moderate

Terrain:

mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs

Natural resources:

timber, fish, cobalt

Land use:

arable land:

permanent crops:

19%

meadows and pastures:

forest and woodland:

31%

other:

44%

Irrigated land:

NA sq km

Environment:

current issues:

natural hazards:

occasional cyclonic storms in January

international agreements:

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

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