French Polynesia
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French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country; it is classified as a non-self-governing territory by the United Nations. It comprises 121 geographically disperse
A two-franc World War II emergency-issue banknote (1943), printed in Papeete, and depicting the outline of Tahiti on the reverse
The French frigate Floréal in November 2002, at anchor in Bora Bora lagoon
The Assembly of French Polynesia
Bora Bora
Tahiti
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Tahiti is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is a tropical island located in the central part of the Pacific Oc
French Polynesia
…Society Islands (comprising the Leeward and Windward Islands); and the Tuamotus. Among its 121 islands and atolls, 75 were inhabited at the 2017 census. Tahiti, which is in the Society Islands group, is the most populous island, home to nearly 69% of the population of French Polynesia as of 2017. Papeete…
Tahiti from space
View of Raʻiātea Mountain. The mummies of Tahitian rulers were formerly deposited on this mountain, which is considered sacred (tapu).
An 1827 representation of human sacrifice in Tahiti, based on the account of Captain Cook c. 1773.
The meeting between Wallis and Oberea