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Tuvalu

Nanumea

Nanumea is the northwesternmost atoll in the nation of , a group of nine coral atolls and spread over about 400 miles of the Pacific Ocean just south of the equator and west of the International Date Line.
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  • Type: Village with 664 residents
  • Description: atoll of Tuvalu
  • Also known as: “Nanomea Island” and “Saint Agustine Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Temotufoliki.

Islet
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Te Motu Foliki is an islet of Nanumea atoll, . It is a small uninhabited islet, which Nanumean traditions describe as being formed when sand spilled from the baskets of two women, Pai and Vau, when they were forced off Nanumea by Tefolaha, the Tongan warrior who became the ancestor of the people of Nanumea.

Nanumea

Latitude
-5.6737° or 5° 40′ 25″ south
Longitude
176.115° or 176° 6′ 54″ east
Population
664
Open location code
6V6R84G7+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2843317135
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2110345
Wiki­data ID
Q174618
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Satellite Map

Discover Nanumea from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Nanumea” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Nanumea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nanumea”
  • Basque: “Nanumea”
  • Belarusian: “Атол Нанумеа”
  • Belarusian: “Нанумеа”
  • Bulgarian: “Нанумеа”
  • Catalan: “Nanumea”
  • Cebuano: “Nanumea (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Nanumea”
  • Chinese: “納努梅阿環礁”
  • Chinese: “纳努梅阿环礁”
  • Czech: “Nanumea”
  • Danish: “Nanumea”
  • Dutch: “Nanumea”
  • Esperanto: “Nanumea”
  • Estonian: “Nanumea atoll”
  • Estonian: “Nanumea”
  • Faroese: “Nanumea”
  • Finnish: “Nanumea”
  • French: “Nanumea”
  • Galician: “Atol Nanumea”
  • Galician: “Nanumea”
  • Georgian: “ნანუმეა”
  • German: “Nanumea-Atoll”
  • Hebrew: “ננומאה”
  • Hungarian: “Nanumea”
  • Indonesian: “Nanumea”
  • Italian: “Nanumea”
  • Japanese: “ナヌメア島”
  • Japanese: “ナヌメア環礁”
  • Korean: “나누메아 환초”
  • Lithuanian: “Nanumea”
  • Macedonian: “Нанумеја”
  • Malay: “Nanumea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nanumea”
  • Norwegian: “Nanumea”
  • Persian: “نانومئا”
  • Polish: “Nanumea”
  • Portuguese: “Nanumea”
  • Romanian: “Nanumea”
  • Russian: “Нанумеа”
  • Scots: “Nanumea”
  • Sinhala: “නනුමියා, ටුවාලු”
  • Slovak: “Nanumea”
  • Spanish: “Nanumea”
  • Swedish: “Nanumea”
  • Thai: “นานูเมอา”
  • Turkish: “Nanumea”
  • Ukrainian: “Нанумеа”
  • Urdu: “نانومیا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nanumea”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.