atural resources: timber, fish, cobalt

_#_Land use: arable land 1%; permanent crops 19%; meadows and
pastures 5%; forest and woodland 31%; other 44%

_#_Environment: occasional cyclonic storm in January; includes five
archipelagoes

_#_Note: Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great
phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean--the others are Banaba
(Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Nauru

_*_People
_#_Population: 195,046 (July 1991), growth rate 2.5% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 31 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 6 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 22 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 66 years male, 71 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 3.9 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--French Polynesian(s); adjective--French
Polynesian

_#_Ethnic divisions: Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%,
metropolitan French 4%

_#_Religion: mainly Christian; Protestant 54%, Roman Catholic 30%,
other 16%

_#_Language: French (official), Tahitian

_#_Literacy: 98% (male 98%, female 98%) age 14 and over but definition
of literacy not available (1977)

_#_Labor force: 76,630 employed (1988)

_#_Organized labor: NA

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: Territory of French Polynesia

_#_Type: overseas territory of France since 1946

_#_Capital: Papeete

_#_Administrative divisions: none (overseas territory of France);
there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US
Government, but there are 5 archipelagic divisions named
Archipel des Marquises, Archipel des Tuamotu, Archipel des Tubuai, Iles
du Vent, and Iles Sous-le-Vent; note--Clipperton Island is administered
from French Polynesia and may have become a dependency of French
Polynesia

_#_Independence: none (overseas territory of France)

_#_Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

_#_Legal system: based on French system

_#_National holiday: Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789)

_#_Executive branch: French president, high commissioner of the
republic, president of the Council of Ministers, vice president of the
Council of Ministers, Council of Ministers

_#_Legislative branch: unicameral Territorial Assembly

_#_Judicial branch: Court of Appeal

_#_Leaders:

Chief of State--President Francois MITTERRAN