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where is bora bora located

Bora Bora is located in the South Pacific Ocean in French Polynesia, in the Society Islands (specifically the Leeward Islands), northwest of Tahiti.

Quick Scoop: Where is Bora Bora located?

  • It sits in French Polynesia , an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific.
  • It belongs to the Society Islands archipelago, within the subgroup called the Leeward Islands.
  • The main island lies roughly 230–260 km (about 140–160 miles) northwest of Papeete, Tahiti.
  • Geographically, it’s just south of the equator, roughly “between” Australia and South America, with Hawaii several hours’ flight to the north in the North Pacific.

If you imagine a world map, picture a point in the mid–South Pacific: Australia to the west, South America far to the east, and Bora Bora as a small tropical island ringed by a lagoon and reef in the middle of that ocean space.

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