Papeete

American  

[pah-pee-ey-tey, puh-pee-tee] / ˌpɑ piˈeɪ teɪ, pəˈpi ti /

noun

1. a city on NW Tahiti, in the Society Islands: capital of the Society Islands and of French Polynesia.

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Papeete British  

/ ˌpɑːpɪˈiːtɪ /

noun

1. the capital of French Polynesia, on the NW coast of Tahiti: one of the largest towns in the S Pacific. Pop: 130 000 (2005 est)

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Papeete

The flight from Melbourne was headed to Dallas on Friday when it was forced to make a stop-off in Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, due to the disruptive passenger.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

Even before you board the plane for Tetiaroa, a bio-inspection point in Papeete intercepts any items that could endanger Tetiaroa’s native ecosystem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

The Associated Press took similar footage of Macron at the airport near Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

It departed Papeete at 3 a.m., local time, on Saturday and touched down at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris at 6:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, according to the New York Post.

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2020

In the course of the same year there were issued from the missionary press at Papeete 2300 copies of a little alphabet book.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von