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Avarua

Avarua is a district and town in the north of the island of , the largest island of the . It serves as the capital of the Island territory and is further sub-divided into 19 tapere.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cook Islands National Museum and High Commission of New Zealand.

Museum
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The is part of the Sir Geoffrey Henry National Culture Centre in Avarua on , in the . Its collection includes contemporary and historic artefacts, as well as replicas of objects in foreign institutions.

Government office
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is a government office.

Building
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The is a historic building in Avarua, in the . Built in the 1830s by Makea Pori Ariki, it was later the residence of Makea Takau Ariki and the place where she signed a treaty making the Cook Islands a British protectorate in 1888.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Avatiu and Matavera.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a settlement on in the . It is located on the north coast to the west of the capital Avarua and is the location of Rarotonga's main port.

Town
is a district on the island of in the , located in the northeast of the island. The smallest of Rarotonga's five districts by area, it is subdivided into five tapere and has a relatively high population density. is situated 4 km southeast of Avarua.

Village
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is one of the five districts of the island of in the . It is in the east of the island, to the south of the districts of and Avarua, and northeast of the district of . is situated 6 km southeast of Avarua.

Avarua

Latitude
-21.20747° or 21° 12′ 27″ south
Longitude
-159.77082° or 159° 46′ 15″ west
Population
5,450
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
RAR
United Nations Location Code
CK AVA
Open location code
53C2Q6VH+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 266727954
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4035715
Wiki­data ID
Q170482
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Avarua” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Avarua”
  • Arabic: “آواروآ”
  • Armenian: “Ավարուա”
  • Asturian: “Avarua”
  • Azerbaijani: “Avarua”
  • Basque: “Avarua”
  • Belarusian: “Аваруа”
  • Bosnian: “Avarua”
  • Bulgarian: “Аваруа”
  • Catalan: “Avarua”
  • Cebuano: “Avarua (ulohang dakbayan sa Cook Islands)”
  • Cebuano: “Avarua”
  • Chinese: “Avarua”
  • Chinese: “阿瓦魯阿”
  • Chinese: “阿瓦鲁阿”
  • Chinese: “阿華魯”
  • Croatian: “Avarua”
  • Czech: “Avarua”
  • Danish: “Avarua”
  • Dutch: “Avarua”
  • Esperanto: “Avaruo”
  • Estonian: “Avarua”
  • Finnish: “Avarua”
  • French: “Avarua”
  • Galician: “Avarua”
  • Georgian: “ავარუა”
  • German: “Avarua”
  • Greek: “Avarua”
  • Greek: “Αβαρούα”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Avarua”
  • Hebrew: “אוורואה”
  • Hungarian: “Avarua”
  • Icelandic: “Avarúa”
  • Ido: “Avarua”
  • Indonesian: “Avarua”
  • Irish: “Avarua”
  • Italian: “Avarua”
  • Japanese: “アヴァルア”
  • Japanese: “アバルア”
  • Kazakh: “Аваруа”
  • Korean: “아바루아”
  • Latvian: “Avarua”
  • Ligurian: “Avarua”
  • Lithuanian: “Avarua”
  • Lithuanian: “Avaruja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Avarua”
  • Macedonian: “Аваруа”
  • Malay: “Avarua”
  • Marathi: “अव्हारुआ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Avarua”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Avarua”
  • Minangkabau: “Avarua”
  • Mingrelian: “ავარუა”
  • Nepali: “आभारुआ”
  • Nhengatu: “Avarua”
  • Nhengatu: “Awaruwa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Avarua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Avarua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Avarua”
  • Norwegian: “Avarua”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Avarua”
  • Persian: “آواروآ”
  • Persian: “اواروا”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Awarua”
  • Polish: “Avarua”
  • Portuguese: “Avarua”
  • Pushto: “اواروا”
  • Romanian: “Avarua”
  • Russian: “Аваруа”
  • Serbian: “Аваруа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Avarua”
  • Shona: “Avarua”
  • Slovak: “Avarua”
  • Slovenian: “Avarua”
  • Spanish: “Avarua”
  • Sundanese: “Avarua”
  • Swedish: “Avarua”
  • Tagalog: “Avarua”
  • Tajik: “Аваруа”
  • Tamil: “அவாருவா”
  • Tatar: “Аваруа”
  • Thai: “อะวารัว”
  • Thai: “อาวารัว”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཝ་རུ་ཨ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཝ་རུ་ཨ།”
  • Turkish: “Avarua”
  • Ukrainian: “Аваруа”
  • Urdu: “آواریا”
  • Uzbek: “Avarua”
  • Vietnamese: “Avarua”
  • Võro: “Avarua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Avarua”
  • Welsh: “Avarua”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿瓦鲁阿”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿瓦魯阿”
  • Zulu: “i-Avarua”
  • “Avarua”

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