Pukapuka (municipality)

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Location of the municipality of Pukapuka in the Tuamotu archipelago

Pukapuka is a municipality with 167 inhabitants (2012) in French Polynesia . It only includes the 5 km² atoll of the same name in the area of ​​the Tuamotu Islands . 2 km² of this are in the lagoon .

The zip code is 98774.

timeline

The atoll was discovered by Ferdinand Magellan on January 24, 1521 .

In 1616 the Dutch Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire also landed there .

Population development

year 1977 1983 1988 1996 2002 2007 2012
Residents 95 166 195 175 197 157 167

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institut statistique de la Polynésie Française - Recensement de 2012