Sola
Sola is the capital village of Torba Province in Vanuatu. It is on the island of Vanua Lava. Near the village of Sola is the volcano Mount Suretamate. The Selva and Alket rivers pass north of the village.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 1,170 residents
- Description: human settlement in Vanuatu
- Also known as: “Sola (Sol)” and “Sola, Vanuatu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sola Airport.
Sola Airport
Aerodrome
Vanua Lava Airport, also known as Sola Airport, is an airport near Sola on the island of Vanua Lava, one of the Banks Islands in the Torba province in Vanuatu. Sola Airport is situated 3 km northwest of Sola.
Sola
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Torba, Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-13.87483° or 13° 52′ 29″ southLongitude
167.54974° or 167° 32′ 59″ eastPopulation
1,170Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
SLHUnited Nations Location Code
VU SLHOpen location code
5VR94GGX+3VOpenStreetMap ID
node 5473163161OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2134814Wikidata ID
Q1423143
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Satellite Map
Discover Sola from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Western Mari—“Sola” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Сола (Вануату)”
- Belarusian: “Сола”
- Bislama: “Sola”
- Catalan: “Sola”
- Cebuano: “Sola”
- Chinese: “索拉”
- Croatian: “Sola, Vanuatu”
- Dutch: “Sola”
- French: “Sola”
- Galician: “Sola”
- German: “Sola”
- Irish: “Sola”
- Italian: “Sola”
- Japanese: “ソラ (バヌアツ)”
- Korean: “솔라”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sola”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sola”
- Polish: “Sola”
- Portuguese: “Sola”
- Russian: “Сола”
- Spanish: “Sola, Vanuatu”
- Spanish: “Sola”
- Ukrainian: “Сола (Вануату)”
- Veps: “Sol”
- Western Mari: “Сола”
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