Hoorn Islands
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Collectivité d'outre-mer
The French overseas collectivities , like the French regions are first-order administrative divisions of France. The COMs include some former French overseas territories and other French overseas entities with a particular status, all of which became COMs by constitutional reform on 28 March...
, or COM) of Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands , is a Polynesian French island territory in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Rotuma of Fiji to the west, the main part of Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast,...
is geographically composed. The aggregate area is 115 km², and the population 4873 (census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
of 2003).
Geographically, there are two islands:
- Futuna IslandFutuna Island, Wallis and FutunaFutuna is an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna. It is one of the Hoorn Islands or Îles Horne, nearby Alofi being the other...
(in the northwest) (83 km², pop. 4871) - Alofi IslandAlofi IslandAlofi is an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna...
(in the southeast) (32 km², pop. 2)
Administratively, the Hoorn Islands encompass two of the three royal chiefdoms of Wallis and Futuna:
- Tu`a (Alo): eastern part of Futuna Island, and Alofi Island (area 85 km², pop. 2993)
- SigaveSigaveSigavé is one of the three official chiefdoms of the French territory of Wallis and Futuna in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.-Geography:...
(Singave): western third of Futuna Island (area 30 km², pop. 1880)