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Places worth the detour in French Polynesia

Detourmap lists 40 places in French Polynesia, France, across 1 kind of detour. Best known: Tahiti. 7 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature40
Places
40
Oldest
Eiao Island Nature Reserve 1971
Little known
7 of 40
Share of France
2%

French Polynesia 40

All 40, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in French Polynesia?

Tahiti. Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in French Polynesia?

40: 40 nature & landscapes. 7 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in French Polynesia?

Eiao Island Nature Reserve, dated to 1971. 1 of the 40 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as French Polynesia here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in French Polynesia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. French Polynesia is a first-level division of France, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.