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 5,450 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 7 metres (23 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code RAR
- Description: capital city of the Cook Islands
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cook Islands National Museum and Para O Tane Palace.
Para O Tane Palace
Building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avatiu and Matavera.
Matavera
Town
Matavera is a district on the island of Rarotonga… Matavera is situated 4 km southeast of Avarua.
Ngatangiia
Village
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.
- 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: “阿瓦魯阿”
- Chinese: “阿瓦鲁阿”
- 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”
- Yue Chinese: “阿華魯”
- Zulu: “i-Avarua”
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Highlights include Cook Islands National Auditorum, Te Are Karioi Nui and University of Southern Pacific.
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