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Marquesa Islands

Location S Pacific Ocean, N of Tuamotu Islands, SSE of Hawai’i
Latitude and longitude  9 05 S, 139 05 W
Sovereignty France
Political status notes Part of French Polynesia
Population  8,100
Census notes 1996
Land area in square kilometers 1,274
Capital  Taiohae on the island of Nuku Hive

Sources and other useful websites
Islands and Atolls of French Polynesia
Population Statistics, from the Utrecht University Library in the Netherlands
The Marquesas (Te Henua Te Enata), from John Fowler

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