Rikitea
Rikitea is a small town on Mangareva, which is part of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. A majority of the islanders live in Rikitea. The island was a protectorate of France in 1871 and was annexed in 1881.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: FRED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,100 residents
- Description: human settlement in France
- Also known as: “Rihirea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cathedral of Saint Michael and Mount Duff.
Cathedral of Saint Michael
Church
Photo: FRED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Michael's Cathedral, also known as the Rikitea Cathedral, is a parish of the Catholic Church located on Mangareva Island in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia.
Mount Duff
Peak
Mount Duff, also called Auorotini in the Mangarevan language, is the highest peak on the island of Mangareva in the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. It has an elevation of 441 m.
Rumarei
Islet
Rumarei is an island of the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia. Rumarei is situated 2½ km northwest of Rikitea.
Rikitea
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Gambier, Îles Tuamotu-Gambier, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-23.12295° or 23° 7′ 23″ southLongitude
-134.96801° or 134° 58′ 5″ westPopulation
1,100Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
5487V2GJ+RQOpenStreetMap ID
node 343437381OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4030556Wikidata ID
Q3432042
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Tahitian—“Rikitea” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Рикитеа”
- Catalan: “Rikitea”
- Cebuano: “Rikitea”
- Chinese: “里基泰阿”
- Dutch: “Rikitea”
- French: “Rikitea”
- French: “Rikitéa”
- German: “Rikitea”
- Hungarian: “Rikitea”
- Indonesian: “Rikitea”
- Irish: “Rikitea”
- Japanese: “リキテア”
- Luxembourgish: “Rikitea”
- Macedonian: “Рикитеа”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rikitea”
- Norwegian: “Rikitea”
- Polish: “Rikitea”
- Portuguese: “Rikitea”
- Russian: “Рикитеа”
- Serbian: “Рикитеа”
- Slovenian: “Rikitea”
- Slovenian: “Rikitéa”
- Spanish: “Rikitea”
- Tahitian: “Ri’itea”
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