Makemo

Makemo
Makemo
Commune
	NASA picture of Makemo Atoll.
	Location of Makemo
	Coordinates: 16°35′55″S 143°39′41″W / 16.5985°S 143.6613°W
Country	France
Overseas collectivity	French Polynesia
Subdivision	Îles Tuamotu-Gambier
Area 1	100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Population (2017)	1,508
• Density	15/km2 (39/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC– 10:00
INSEE/Postal code	98726 /98769
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Makemo
	NASA picture of Makemo Atoll
	Makemo
Geography
Location	Pacific Ocean
Coordinates	16°35′55″S 143°39′41″W / 16.59861°S 143.66139°W
Archipelago	Tuamotus
Area	603 km2 (233 sq mi) (lagoon); 56 km2 (22 sq mi) (above water)
Length	69 km (42.9 mi)
Width	16.5 km (10.25 mi)
Administration
	France
Overseas collectivity	French Polynesia
Administrative subdivision	Îles Tuamotu-Gambier
Commune	Makemo
Largest settlement	Pouheva (pop. 600)
Demographics
Population	824 (2017)

Makemo, Rangi-kemo or Te Paritua,^[2] is an inhabited atoll in the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia.

^ "Répartition de la population en Polynésie française en 2017" [Distribution of the population in French Polynesia in 2017] (PDF). Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française (in French). 14 December 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
^ Young, J.L. (1899). "Names of the Paumotu Islands, with the old names so far as they are known". Journal of the Polynesian Society. 8 (4): 264–268. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2015.