Taga
Taga is a village on the island of Savai'i in Samoa. It is situated on the south coast of the island in the district of Palauli and the electoral district of Palauli 1. The population is 785. Geological formations have created the Taga blowholes on the coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 680 residents
- Description: taga
- Also known as: “Taga, Samoa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alofaaga Blowholes.
Alofaaga Blowholes
Photo: Sarah Kelemen, CC BY 2.0.
The Alofaaga Blowholes, also known as the Taga Blowholes, are a natural feature located in the district of Palauli, south west of Salelologa wharf on the island of Savai'i in Samoa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nuʻu, Samoa.
Nuʻu, Samoa
Locality
Nuʻu is a village on the island of Savaiʻi in Samoa. It is situated on the south coast of the island in Palauli district. The word nuʻu in the Samoan language means village or the place a person belongs to. Nuʻu, Samoa is situated 2½ miles east of Taga.
Taga
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Palauli, Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-13.78381° or 13° 47′ 2″ southLongitude
-172.51397° or 172° 30′ 50″ westPopulation
680Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)Open location code
52R96F8P+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2334752303OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4034998Wikidata ID
Q7675114
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Slovak—“Taga” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “তাগা, সামোয়া”
- Cebuano: “Taga”
- Dutch: “Taga, Samoa”
- Japanese: “タガ (サモア)”
- Japanese: “タガ”
- Samoan: “Taga”
- Slovak: “Taga”
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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 “Taga”. Photo: Neil, CC BY 2.0.