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| Official
Name : |
PAYS D'OUTRE-MER DE LA POLYNESIE FRANCAISE (Overseas Territory of French Polynesia) |
| Land
Area: | 3265
square kilometres / 1261 square miles. |
| Population: | 270,500
(est July 2005). |
| Languages: | French
(official), Polynesian languages. |
| Religions: |
Christian; Protestant, Roman and Mormon. |
| Capital: | Papeete.
Population 50,000 |
| Currency: | Pacific
franc, divided into 100 centimes. |
| Political: | |
| Geography: |
French Polynesia extends over a vast area of the southeastern Pacific Ocean, comprising
of more than 130 islands and atolls. Economy is based on fishing and tourism,
plus a huge annual subsidy from France, that will end in 2009. |
