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Tabular Data - 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 : |
15 00 S, 140 00 W |
| Map References : |
Oceania |
| Area : |
total: 4,167 sq km (118 islands and atolls)
land: 3,660 sq km
water: 507 sq km |
| Area - Comparative : |
slightly less than one-third the size of Connecticut |
| Coastline : |
2,525 km |
| Maritime Claims : |
territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm |
| Climate : |
tropical, but moderate |
| Terrain : |
mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs |
| Elevation Extremes : |
lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mont Orohena 2,241 m |
| Natural Resources : |
timber, fish, cobalt, hydropower |
| Land Use : |
arable land: 0.82%
permanent crops: 5.46%
other: 93.72% (2001) |
| Natural Hazards : |
occasional cyclonic storms in January |
| Geography - Note : |
Includes five archipelagoes (4 volcanic, 1 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. |
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