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Tahiti was became officially an overseas territory of France in 1957. Tahitians are French citizens and have the civil and political rights of France. In 1998 Tahiti was granted the right by France to rule themselves internally. Tahiti has its own president and assembly, and makes its own budget and laws.

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Ultimately in the end the Pomare Dynasty ceded Tahiti to France by King Pomare V, 1880. Hence, it was called French Polynesia because it was an oversea territory, 1957.

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