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   Note: This section last updated 19th April 2021

   1 234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 19th April 2021

   dd/mm/yyyy
   dd.mm.yyyy
   dd-mm-yyyy

The 24-hour clock notation is used, with h, indicating heures, hours, often used as a separator:

   14h32
   14:32   

The official languages are French , having 15 338 first-language speakers, and Tahitian , with 117 000 speakers. The other 7 languages are Austral (8 000 people in the Austral Islands); Hakka Chinese (19 200 people); Mangareva (1 600 people in the Gambier Islands and on Mangareva Island); North Marquesan (3 400 people in the Marquesas Islands); South Marquesan (2 100 people in the Marquesas Islands); Rapa (400 people on Rapa Island) and Tuamotuam (14 400 on Tuamotu and Tahiti).

   Note: This section last updated 4th July 2020

Please refer to the chapter on France for address information. The French Polynesia post office prefers that the island name is added after the municipality name in this way:

   98711 ARUE TAHITI 

“Building numbers” in French Polynesia may be followed not by a street name but by the initialism PK, meaning Point Kilométrique, indicating a distance marker from a specified point on each island, in this way:

   12 PK
   Bora Bora 

or

   12 PK 15 
   Bora Bora 

Each island has a PK 0 point. The PK 0 point on Tahiti, for example, is in front of the cathedral in Papeete.

This is written Boîte Postale.

   Note: This section last updated 4th July 2020

All French Polynesia postal codes (Code Postal) commence with the digits 987. The fourth digit indicates an island group, but this does not coincide directly with the administrative subdivisions of French Polynesia. The digits used are:

   Windward Islands                  0-2 
   Leeward Islands                   3 
   Marquesas Islands                 4 
   Austral and Gambier Islands       5 
   Tuamotu Islands                   6-8 
   Other islands                     9 

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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French Polynesia - Postal code format

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French Polynesia - Postal code regular expression

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   Note: This section last updated 17th May 2011

French Polynesia is divided into 5 administrative sub-divisions, not used in addresses:

    Leeward Islands           
    Marquesas Islands       
    Tuamotu and Gambier Islands 
    Tubuai Islands             
    Windward Islands 

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   Note: This section last updated 16th April 2019

French Polynesian telephone numbers have no area codes. All subscriber numbers have 8 digits. Mobile numbers commence 87-89.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm