Pango
Pango is a community located on the southern coast of Efate, Vanuatu. It is considered peri-urban and is located seven kilometers away from Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu. The name Pango was given by early Samoan missionaries who arrived in the 1840s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,490 residents
- Description: village in Shefa Province, Vanuatu
- Also known as: “Ép̄ang” and “Pango, Vanuatu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Erakor Island and Iririki.
Erakor Island
Islet
Photo: Jean Van Jean, CC BY 3.0.
Erakor is a small island in the Pacific Ocean on the outskirts of Port-Vila, belonging to the Shefa Province of Vanuatu. The island is home to the Erakor Island Resort and Spa, and is a popular destination for western tourists.
Iririki
Islet
Iririki is a privately owned island resort located in Mele Bay, Port Vila, the Capital of Vanuatu. The resort is Vanuatu’s most famous and known throughout the world for also being the country’s best. Iririki is situated 4 km northeast of Pango.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Vila.
Port Vila
Photo: eGuide Travel, CC BY 2.0.
Port Vila is the capital of Vanuatu. Vanuatu's largest town, with some 50,000 people, it lies on the south coast of the island of Efate in the province of Shefa, right in the middle of the archipelago.
Pango
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Shefa, Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-17.77651° or 17° 46′ 35″ southLongitude
168.29066° or 168° 17′ 26″ eastPopulation
2,490Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
5VJC67FR+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 6275757196OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2135349Wikidata ID
Q7130975
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Russian—“Pango” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pango”
- Chinese: “攀果”
- Dutch: “Pango”
- Irish: “Pango”
- Russian: “Панго (Вануату)”
- Russian: “Панго”
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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 “Pango”. Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.