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French Polynesia
Windward Islands

Maiao

Maiʻao, also rendered as Maiao in languages other than Tahitian, is an 8.8 km2 island formation located 78 km southwest of Moʻorea and one of the in .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: island in French Polynesia
  • Also known as: “Ile Tubuai-Manu”, “Isla de los Pajaros”, “La Pelada”, “Maïa-iti”, “Maiao Iti”, “Maiʻao”, “Maio”, “Mauiti”, “Saunders Island”, “Sir Charles Saunders’Island”, “Tapamanoa”, “Tapamanu”, “Tapuaemanu”, “Tubaii”, “Tubuai-Manu”, and “Tupuai Manu”

Maiao

Latitude
-17.65856° or 17° 39′ 31″ south
Longitude
-150.63165° or 150° 37′ 54″ west
Population
299
Elevation
260 metres (853 feet)
Open location code
53JF89R9+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5309542021
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
4034300
Wiki­data ID
Q1340728
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Maiao” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Maiao”
  • Arabic: “ماياو”
  • Asturian: “Islla Maiao”
  • Asturian: “Maiao”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maiao”
  • Basque: “Maiao”
  • Belarusian: “Маіаа”
  • Catalan: “Maiao”
  • Cebuano: “Maïao”
  • Chinese: “馬伊奧島”
  • Chinese: “马伊奥岛”
  • Danish: “Maiao”
  • Dutch: “Maiao”
  • Esperanto: “Maiao”
  • Finnish: “Maiao”
  • French: “Mai’ao”
  • French: “Maiao”
  • French: “Tapua’e Manu”
  • French: “Tapuae Manu”
  • Galician: “Maiao”
  • German: “Maiao”
  • Hungarian: “Maiao”
  • Italian: “Maiao”
  • Japanese: “マイアオ島”
  • Japanese: “マイアオ環礁”
  • Lithuanian: “Maiao”
  • Lithuanian: “Majao”
  • Macedonian: “Мајао”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maiao”
  • Norwegian: “Maiao”
  • Persian: “مایئائو”
  • Polish: “Maiao”
  • Portuguese: “Maiao”
  • Russian: “Маиао”
  • Russian: “Тапаманоа”
  • Spanish: “Maiao”
  • Swedish: “Maiao”
  • Tahitian: “Mai’ao Iti”
  • Tahitian: “Mai’ao”
  • Tahitian: “Tapua’e Manu”
  • Western Frisian: “Mai‘ao”

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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 “Maiao”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.