French Polynesia

French Polynesia

French Polynesia ranks 150th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Benin, Chad, and Guyana. Memorable people born in present day French Polynesia include Pōmare V, Pōmare III, and Pōmare I. Memorable people who died in French Polynesia include Paul Gauguin, Joe Dassin, and Pōmare IV. French Polynesia has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and painters.

French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. The total land area of French Polynesia is 3,521 square kilometres (1,359 sq mi), with a population of 278,786 of which at least 205,000 live in the Society Islands and the remaining population lives in the rest of the archipelago. Read more on Wikipedia