Population is about 279,287 people, the 184th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 27,488 of everyone alive.
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Fr. Polynesia
French Polynesia ยท Polynรฉsie franรงaise
Oceania
ยท Polynesia
0Population
4.17Kkmยฒ of land
$19.66KGDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- PF ยท PYF
- Density
- 67 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- CFP franc (XPF)
- Dial code
- +689
- Internet domain
- .pf
- Time zones
- 3
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 17.6280ยฐ S, 149.4620ยฐ W
- Demonym
- French Polynesian
- UN region
- Polynesia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $5.49B
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Fr. Polynesia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
184th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
174th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
69th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
136th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Fr. Polynesia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 4,167 kmยฒ, making it the 174th largest country here - about 1.6 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 67 people per kmยฒ.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 3 time zones, from Pacific/Gambier to Pacific/Tahiti.
The currency is the CFP franc (XPF, symbol โฃ).
The official language is French.
Dials on +689 and uses the .pf internet domain.
Annual GDP is around $5 billion - the 166th largest economy here, or about $19,657 per person.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Pacific/Gambier
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UTCโ09:00
Pacific/Marquesas
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UTCโ09:30
Pacific/Tahiti
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UTCโ10:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Papeete
17.5334ยฐ S, 149.5667ยฐ W
131.7K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Bora Bora
Beach
A sunken volcano ringed by a barrier reef, leaving a lagoon in half a dozen distinct shades of blue.