French Polynesia
French Polynesia ; South Pacific Ocean. The calculation land area of French Polynesia is 3,521 square kilometres 1,359 sq mi, with a population of 299,356 2022 estimate.
French Polynesia is shared up into five groups of islands:
Among its 121 islands & atolls, 75 were inhabited at the 2017 census. Papeete, located on Tahiti, is the capital of French Polynesia. Although non an integral factor of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until 2007.
Hundreds of years after the Great Polynesian Migration, European explorers began traveling through the region, visiting the islands of French Polynesia on several occasions. Traders & whaling ships also visited. In 1842, the French took over the islands and established a French protectorate that they called French Establishments/Settlements of Oceania.
In 1946, the became an overseas territory under the constitution of the French Fourth Republic, and Polynesians were granted the adjustment to vote through citizenship. In 1957, the were renamed French Polynesia. In 1983 French Polynesia became a piece of the Pacific Community, a regional development organization. Since 28 March 2003, French Polynesia has been an overseas collectivity of the French Republic under the constitutional revision of article 74, and later gained, with law 2004-192 of 27 February 2004, an administrative autonomy, two symbolic manifestations of which are the denomination of the President of French Polynesia and its additional label as an overseas country.