French Polynesia

118 islands across five archipelagos — Tahiti, Bora Bora, the Marquesas. A fuller French Polynesia guide is being written.

An overseas collectivity — French, but outside the European Union's NUTS statistical geography, so it belongs to no metropolitan region and shades no département on our maps.

Getting there

Access

Flights from Paris via Los Angeles or Tokyo to Papeete, around 22 hours. Inter-island flights and cargo-passenger ships from there.