Papeete (pyf)

Papeete

Papeete ranks 1,630th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Heredia, Costa Rica, Berlin Palace, and Almelo. The most famous people from Papeete are Pōmare IV, Conrad Hall, and Édouard Fritch. The most famous people who died in Papeete are Joe Dassin, Pōmare IV, and Pōmare V. Papeete has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and singers. Papeete is located in French Polynesia.

Papeete is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic located in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Papeʻete is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, of which Papeʻete is the administrative capital. Both the President of French Polynesia and French High Commissioner reside in Papeʻete. sometimes omitted. Archived June 26, 2006, at the Wayback Machine</ref> means "water from a basket"— this was an effect of a naming taboo during Pōmare I's reign where the Tahitian contemporary word for water vai was substituted with pape, the old name Vaiʻete is still recognised in some areas such as the Marquesas. The urban area of Papeʻete had a total population of 124,724 inhabitants at the 2022 census, 26,654 of whom lived in the commune of Papeʻete proper. Read more on Wikipedia