Îles du Vent · French Polynesia
Papeete population
26,357people · latest figure
Papeete has a population of 26,357, making it the 2nd largest place we list in French Polynesia. It is in Îles du Vent.
Papeete holds 9.3% of French Polynesia's 283,076 people. Faaa, the largest place we list there, is only slightly larger. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 26,357, almost unchanged.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Faaa | Îles du Vent | 29,851 |
| Punaauia | Îles du Vent | 25,750 |
| Pirae | Îles du Vent | 14,475 |
| Mahina | Îles du Vent | 14,369 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.