Territorial change
Open on the mapFrench Polynesia: Non-state territory → France (annexation)
1881 · French Polynesia
What the records say
- When
- 1881
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- French Polynesia
- Coordinates
- 17.60° S, 149.50° W
- Process
- annexation
- Type
- Annexation (unilateral)
- Pop
- 5469
- Area km2
- 1000
- Gaining
- France
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
French Polynesia
French overseas collectivity in the Pacific
French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country; it is classified as a non-self-governing territory by the United Nations. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. French Polynesia is associated with the European Union as an overseas country and territory (OCT).
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation