Bora Bora, French Polynesia..... 

       French Polynesia (/ˈfrɛntʃ pɒlɪˈniːʒə/ (Approximately this soundlisten); French: Polynésie française [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛz]; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas nation. It comprises 118 topographically scattered islands and atolls extending over more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi) within the South Pacific Ocean. The overall arrive zone of French Polynesia is 4,167 square kilometers (1,609 sq mi).

French Polynesia

Polynésie française  (French)

Pōrīnetia Farāni  (Tahitian)

Overseas nation and collectivity of France

Hail of French Polynesia

Flag Official seal of French Polynesia

Coat of arms

Proverb: "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" (French)

(English: "Freedom, Balance, Society")

Regional witticism: "Tahiti Nui Māre'are'a" (Tahitian)

(English: "Extraordinary Tahiti of the Brilliant Cloudiness")

Song of devotion: "La Marseillaise"

Regional song of devotion: "Ia Ora 'O Tahiti Nui"

Area of French Polynesia

Area of French Polynesia (circled in ruddy)

Autonomous state

France

Protectorate announced

9 September 1842

Regional status

27 October 1946

Collectivity status

28 Walk 2003

Nation status (ostensible title)

27 February 2004

Capital

Papeete

17°34′S 149°36′W

Biggest city

Fa'a'ā

Official dialects

French

Perceived regional dialects

TahitianAustralRaivavaeRapaMangarevaTuamotuanMarquesan

Ethnic bunches (1988[1])

66.5% unmixed Polynesians

7.1% blended Polynesians[a]

9.3% Demis[b]

11.9% Europeans[c]

4.7% East Asians[d]

Demonym(s)

French Polynesian

Government

Reverted parliamentary reliance

• President of the French Republic

Emmanuel Macron

• President of French Polynesia

Édouard Fritch

• Tall Commissioner of the Republic

Dominique Sorain

Council

Gathering of French Polynesia

French Parliament

• Senate

2 representatives (of 348)

• National Get together

3 seats (of 577)

Zone

• Add up to

4,167 km2 (1,609 sq mi)

• Arrive

3,521.2 km2 (1,359.5 sq mi)

• Water (%)

12

Populace

• 2017 census

275,918[2] (183rd)

• Thickness

78/km2 (202.0/sq mi) (130th)

GDP (ostensible)

2018 gauge

• Add up to

US$6.163 billion[3]

Cash

CFP franc (XPF)

Time zone

UTC−10:00UTC−09:30 (Marquesas Islands)UTC−09:00 (Gambier Islands)

Date organize

dd/mm/yyyy

Mains power

110 V–60 Hz220 V–60 Hz

Driving side

right

Calling code

+689

ISO 3166 code

PFFR-PF

Internet TLD

.pf

French Polynesia is separated into five bunches of islands:

the Society Islands archipelago, comprising the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands;

the Tuamotu Archipelago;

the Gambier Islands;

the Marquesas Islands; and

the Austral Islands.

Among its 118 islands and atolls, 67 are possessed. Tahiti, which is within the Society Islands bunch, is the foremost crowded island, being domestic to about 69% of the populace of French Polynesia as of 2017. Papeete, found on Tahiti, is the capital of French Polynesia. In spite of the fact that not an indispensably portion of its domain, Clipperton Island was managed from French Polynesia until 2007.

Hundreds of a long time after the Incredible Polynesian Relocation, European pioneers started traveling through the locale, going to the islands of French Polynesia on a few occasions. Dealers and whaling ships too gone by. In 1842, the French took over the islands and set up a French protectorate that they called Établissements français d'Océanie (EFO) (French Establishments/Settlements of Oceania).

In 1946, the EFO got to be an overseas domain beneath the structure of the French Fourth Republic, and Polynesians were allowed the correct to vote through citizenship. In 1957, the EFO were renamed French Polynesia. In 1983 French Polynesia got to be a part of the Pacific Community, a regional improvement organization. Since 28 Walk 2003, French Polynesia has been an overseas collectivity of the French Republic beneath the sacred amendment of article 74, and afterward picked up, with law 2004-192 of 27 February 2004, an authoritative independence, two typical signs of which are the title of the President of French Polynesia and its extra assignment as an overseas nation.[4]

History Edit

The French frigate Floréal in November 2002, positioned in Bora Bora tidal pond

Anthropologists and students of history accept the Incredible Polynesian Relocation commenced around 1500 BC as Austronesian people groups went on a travel utilizing ethereal route to find islands within the South Pacific Ocean. The primary islands of French Polynesia to be settled were the Marquesas Islands in approximately 200 BC. The Polynesians afterward wandered southwest and found the Society Islands around Advertisement 300.[5]

European encounters started in 1521 when Portuguese pilgrim Ferdinand Magellan, cruising at the benefit of the Spanish Crown, located Puka-Puka within the Tuāmotu-Gambier Archipelago. In 1606 another Spanish undertaking beneath Pedro Fernandes de Queirós cruised through Polynesia locating an occupied island on 10 February[6] which they called Sagitaria (or Sagittaria), likely the island of Rekareka to the southeast of Tahiti.[7] In 1722, Dutchman Jakob Roggeveen whereas on an undertaking sponsored by the Dutch West India Company, charted the area of six islands within the Tuamotu Archipelago and two islands within the Society Islands, one of which was Bora Bora.

British pioneer Samuel Wallis got to be the primary European pilot to visit Tahiti in 1767. French pilgrim Louis Antoine de Bougainville moreover gone to Tahiti in 1768, whereas British pioneer James Cook arrived in 1769.[5] Cook would halt in Tahiti once more in 1773 amid his moment voyage to the Pacific, and once more in 1777 amid his third and last voyage some time recently being murdered in Hawaii.

In 1772, the Spanish Emissary of Peru Wear Manuel de Amat requested a number of endeavors to Tahiti beneath the command of Domingo de Bonechea who was the primary European to investigate all of the most islands past Tahiti.[8] A brief-lived Spanish settlement was made in 1774,[5] and for a time a few maps bore the title Isla de Amat after Emissary Amat.[9] Christian missions started with Spanish clerics who remained in Tahiti for a year. Protestants from the London Teacher Society settled forever in Polynesia in 1797.

Society Island kingdoms

Ruler Pōmare II of Tahiti was constrained to escape to Moment'orea in 1803[why?]; he and his subjects were changed over to Protestantism in 1812. French Catholic teachers arrived on Tahiti in 1834; their ejection in 1836 caused France to send a gunboat in 1838. In 1842, Tahiti and Tahuata were pronounced a French protectorate, to allow Catholic evangelists to work undisturbed. The capital of Papeetē was established in 1843. In 1880, France added Tahiti, changing the status from that of a protectorate to that of a colony. The island bunches were not authoritatively joined together until the establishment of the French protectorate in 1889.[10]

After France announced a protectorate over Tahiti in 1840 and battled a war with Tahiti (1844–1847), the British and French marked the Jarnac Convention in 1847, announcing that the kingdoms of Raiatea, Huahine and Bora Bora were to remain free from either powers which no single chief was to be permitted to rule over the whole archipelago. France inevitably broke the understanding, and the islands were added and got to be a colony in 1888 (eight a long time after the Windward Islands) after numerous local resistances and clashes called the Leewards War, enduring until 1897.[11][12]

Within the 1880s, France claimed the Tuamotu Archipelago, which once in the past had a place to the Pōmare Tradition, without formally attaching it. Having announced a protectorate over Tahuata in 1842, the French respected the whole Marquesas Islands as French. In 1885, France designated a senator and set up a common committee, in this way giving it the appropriate organization for a colony. The islands of Rimatara and Rūrutu unsuccessfully lobbied for British assurance in 1888, so in 1889 they were attached by France. Postage stamps were to begin with issued within the colony in 1892. The primary official title for the colony was Établissements de l'Océanie (Establishments in Oceania); in 1903 the common board was changed to an advisory chamber and the colony's title was changed to Établissements Français de l'Océanie (French Establishments in Oceania).[13]

In 1940, the organization of French Polynesia perceived the Free French Strengths and numerous Polynesians served in World War II. Obscure at the time to the French and Polynesians, the Konoe Cabinet in Royal Japan on 16 September 1940 included French Polynesia among the numerous domains which were to ended up Japanese belonging, as portion of the "Eastern Pacific Government-Common" within the post-war world.[14] In any case, within the course of the war within the Pacific the Japanese were not able to dispatch an genuine intrusion of the French islands.

A two-franc World War II emergency-issue banknote (1943), printed in Papeete, and depicting the diagram of Tahiti on the switch

In 1946, Polynesians were allowed French citizenship and the islands' status was changed to an overseas domain; the islands' title was changed in 1957 to Polynésie Française (French Polynesia). In 1962, France's early atomic testing ground in Algeria was now not useable when Algeria got to be free and the Moruroa atoll within the Tuamotu Archipelago was chosen as the unused testing location; tests were conducted underground after 1974.[15] In 1977, French Polynesia was allowed fractional inner independence; in 1984, the independence was expanded. French Polynesia got to be a full overseas collectivity of France in 2003.[16]

In September 1995, France blended up far reaching challenges by continuing atomic testing at Fangataufa atoll after a three-year moratorium. The last test was on 27 January 1996. On 29 January 1996, France reported that it would agree to the Comprehensive Test Boycott Arrangement, and not test atomic weapons.[17]

French Polynesia was relisted within the UN List of Non-Self Administering Regions in 2013, making it qualified for a UN-sponsored autonomy referendum. The relisting was made after the innate restriction was voiced and bolstered by the Polynesian Pioneers Bunch, Pacific Conference of Churches, Ladies's Worldwide Alliance for Peace and Opportunity, Non-Aligned Development, World Board of Churches, and Melanesian Spearhead Gather.[18]