Nuku-Hiva

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the administrative commune of Nuku-Hiva. For the island of Nuku Hiva proper, see Nuku Hiva.

Commune of Nuku-Hiva
Location
Location of the commune (in red) within the Marquesas Islands
Administration
Country	France
Overseas community	French Polynesia
Administrative subdivision	Marquesas Islands
Commune centre	Taiohae
Mayor	Benoît Kautai
Statistics
Elevation	0 m–1,224 m
Land area	387.8 km²
Population¹ (Aug. 2007 census)	2,660
- Density	6.9[1]/km² (2007 census)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	98731/ 98742
1 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Nuku-Hiva is a commune of French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The commune is in the administrative subdivision of the Marquesas Islands.

The commune of Nuku-Hiva is made up of the island of Nuku Hiva proper (339 km² (131 sq mi)), which contains the entire population of the commune, and the uninhabited islands of:

• Eiao, located 97 km (60 mi) northwest of Nuku Hiva
• Hatutu, located 103 km (64 mi) northwest of Nuku Hiva
• Motu One, located 105 km (65 mi) north of Nuku Hiva
• Motu Iti, located 48 km (30 mi) west of Nuku Hiva

The administrative centre of the commune is the settlement of Taiohae, on the southern side of the island of Nuku Hiva.

[edit] Footnotes