Raiatea-Tahaa Islands

Raiatea & Tahaa

Raiatea, is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia. The main township on Raiatea is 'Uturoa. The islands of Raiatea and Taha'a are enclosed by a single coral reef, and may once have been a single island. Raiatea is both the largest and most populated island in the Leeward Islands, with a land area of 64.7 sq mi and a total population of 12,024 inhabitants at the August 2007 census.