Fakaofo

Fakaofo, formerly known as Bowditch Island, is a South Pacific Ocean atoll located in the Group. The actual land area is only about 3 km2, consisting of islets on a coral reef surrounding a central lagoon of some 45 km2.
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  • Island
  • …has 483 residents
  • Description: archipelago in Tokelau
  • Also known as
    “Bowditch Island”
    “Fakaofo Atoll”
    “Fakaofu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nukumatau.
is an islet of the Fakaofo island group of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fale old settlement and Fakaofo.
Fale is an islet of the Fakaofo island group of .
CloudSurfer, CC BY 2.5.
is a village on atoll in .

Fakaofo

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Latitude
-9.3736° or 9° 22′ 25″ south
Longitude
-171.2415° or 171° 14′ 29″ west
UN/LOCODE
TK FKO
Open location code
622CJQG5+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 583322702
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
4031112
Wiki­data ID
Q650847

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Fakaofo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fakaofo”
  • Amharic: “ፋካኦፎ”
  • Arabic: “فاكاوفو”
  • Armenian: “Ֆակաոֆո”
  • Asturian: “Fakaofo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fakaofo”
  • Bengali: “ফাকাওফো”
  • Bosnian: “Fakaofo”
  • Catalan: “Bowditch Island”
  • Catalan: “Fakaofo Atoll”
  • Catalan: “Fakaofo”
  • Cebuano: “Fakaofo”
  • Chinese: “法考福環礁”
  • Croatian: “Fakaofo”
  • Dutch: “Fakaofo”
  • Estonian: “Fakaofo”
  • Finnish: “Fakaofo”
  • French: “Fakaofo”
  • Galician: “Atol Fakaofo”
  • German: “Fakaofo”
  • Greek: “Φακαόφο”
  • Hausa: “Fakaofo”
  • Italian: “Fakaofo”
  • Japanese: “ファカアオフォ”
  • Japanese: “ファカオフォ島”
  • Javanese: “Fakaofo”
  • Kazakh: “Факаофо”
  • Kirghiz: “Факаофо”
  • Korean: “파카오푸”
  • Latin: “Fakaofo”
  • Latvian: “Fakaofo”
  • Lithuanian: “Fakaofas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Fakaofo”
  • Malay: “Fakaofo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fakaofo”
  • Norwegian: “Fakaofo”
  • Oromo: “Fakaofo”
  • Panjabi: “ਫਾਕਾਓਫੋ”
  • Persian: “فاکائوفو”
  • Persian: “فاکاوفو”
  • Polish: “Fakaofo”
  • Portuguese: “Fakaofo”
  • Pushto: “فاکاؤفو”
  • Romanian: “Fakaofo”
  • Russian: “Факаофо”
  • Serbian: “Fakaofo”
  • Slovenian: “Bowditch Island”
  • Slovenian: “Fakaofo Atoll”
  • Slovenian: “Fakaofo”
  • Somali: “Fakaofo”
  • Spanish: “Fakaofo”
  • Swahili: “Fakaofo”
  • Swedish: “Fakaofo”
  • Tajik: “Факаофо”
  • Tatar: “Факаофо”
  • Turkish: “Fakaofo”
  • Ukrainian: “Факаофо”
  • Urdu: “فکاؤفو”
  • Uzbek: “Fakaofo”
  • Yue Chinese: “法高弗”

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Highlights include Old Hospital and Te Afua Tau Tahi.

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