French Polynesia is composed of 118 islands divieded into 5 archipelagoes located in the middle of the South Pacific ocean. Spread over a surface larger than Europe, these 118 islands barely occupy 4,000 km of land (less than 1/100 of the surface of France). Of this surface, the atoll of Rangiroa alone with its huge lagoon -that could fit entirely the island of Tahiti- is the largest with 1,600 km² followed by the island of Tahiti with 1,000 km².
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