Avarua
Avarua is a district and township in the north of the island of Rarotonga, the largest island of the Cook Islands. It serves as the capital of the country and is divided into 19 tapere.
- Town with about 4,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 650 metres (2,140 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code RAR
- Description: capital city of the Cook Islands
Places of Interest
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Cook Islands National Museum
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Para O Tane Palace
The Para O Tane Palace is a historic building in Avarua, Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
Ikurangi
Ikurangi is one of the four major peaks of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avatiu and Matavera.
Ngatangiia
Ngatangiia is one of the five districts of the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
6 km southeast of Avarua
Avarua
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Latitude
-21.20747° or 21° 12′ 27″ south
Longitude
-159.77082° or 159° 46′ 15″ west
UN/LOCODE
CK AVA
Open location code
53C2Q6VH+2M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Avarua” goes by many names.
AvaruaAfrikaans
آواروآArabic
ԱվարուաArmenian
AvaruaAsturian
AvaruaAzerbaijani
AvaruaBasque
АваруаBelarusian
AvaruaBosnian
АваруаBulgarian
AvaruaCatalan
AvaruaCebuano
Avarua (ulohang dakbayan sa Cook Islands)Cebuano
阿瓦魯阿Chinese
阿瓦鲁阿Chinese
AvaruaCroatian
AvaruaCzech
AvaruaDanish
AvaruaDutch
AvaruoEsperanto
AvaruaEstonian
AvaruaFinnish
AvaruaGalician
ავარუაGeorgian
AvaruaGreek
ΑβαρούαGreek
AvaruaHakka Chinese
אוורואהHebrew
AvaruaHungarian
AvarúaIcelandic
AvaruaIdo
AvaruaIndonesian
AvaruaIrish
AvaruaItalian
アヴァルアJapanese
アバルアJapanese
АваруаKazakh
아바루아Korean
AvaruaLatvian
AvaruaLigurian
AvaruaLithuanian
AvarujaLithuanian
AvaruaLuxembourgish
АваруаMacedonian
AvaruaMalay
अव्हारुआMarathi
AvaruaMin Dong Chinese
AvaruaMin Nan Chinese
AvaruaMinangkabau
ავარუაMingrelian
आभारुआNepali
AvaruaNhengatu
AwaruwaNhengatu
AvaruaNorthern Frisian
AvaruaNorwegian
AvaruaNorwegian Bokmål
AvaruaNorwegian Nynorsk
AvaruaOccitan (post 1500)
آواروآPersian
AwaruaPitcairn-Norfolk
AvaruaPolish
اوارواPushto
AvaruaRomanian
АваруаRussian
АваруаSerbian
AvaruaSerbo-Croatian
AvaruaShona
AvaruaSlovak
AvaruaSlovenian
AvaruaSundanese
AvaruaSwedish
AvaruaTagalog
АваруаTajik
அவாருவாTamil
АваруаTatar
อะวารัวThai
อาวารัวThai
ཨ་ཝ་རུ་ཨ།Tibetan
AvaruaTurkish
АваруаUkrainian
آواریاUrdu
AvaruaUzbek
AvaruaVietnamese
AvaruaVõro
AvaruaWaray (Philippines)
AvaruaWelsh
阿瓦鲁阿Wu Chinese
阿瓦魯阿Yue Chinese
阿華魯Yue Chinese
i-AvaruaZulu
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