This article describes the geography of French Polynesia.
- Location
- Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about half way between South America and Australia
- Geographic coordinates
- 15°00′S 140°00′W / 15°S 140°W / -15; -140
- Map references
- Oceania
- Area
-
- Total: 4,167 km² (Around 130 islands)
- Land: 3,827 km²
- Water: 340 km²
- Land boundaries
- 0 km
- Coastline
- 2,525 km
- Maritime claims
-
- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
- Territorial sea: 12 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 ( Tahiti ) 2,241 m
- Natural resources
- Timber, fish, cobalt, hydropower
- Land use
-
- Arable land: 0.75%
- Permanent crops: 5.5%
- Other: 93.75% (2005)
- Irrigated land
- 10 km2 (2003)
- Natural hazards
- Occasional cyclonic storms in January
- Environment - current issues
- NA
- Geography - 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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