Takaroa
Takaroa, Taka-roa or Takapua, is an atoll in the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It is 27.4 kilometres long and 7 km wide; its land area is 20 square kilometres.- Type: Locality with 1,240 residents
- Description: island in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Île Zonderground”, “Taka-Roa”, “Takapua”, and “Tioka”
Takaroa
- Categories: atoll and reef island
- Location: Tuamotu-Gambier Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-14.452° or 14° 27′ 7″ south
Longitude
-144.9635° or 144° 57′ 49″ west
Population
1,240
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PF TKX
Open location code
53QQG2XP+6H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=atoll
OpenStreetMap feature
place=atoll
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Western Mari—“Takaroa” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Takaroa”
- Catalan: “Takaroa”
- Cebuano: “Takaroa Atoll”
- Chinese: “塔卡羅阿環礁”
- Dutch: “Takaroa”
- Esperanto: “Takaroa”
- Finnish: “Takaroa”
- French: “Takaroa”
- Galician: “Atol Takaroa”
- German: “Takaroa”
- Hungarian: “Takaroa”
- Italian: “Takaroa”
- Japanese: “タカロア環礁”
- Latvian: “Takaroa”
- Lithuanian: “Takaroa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Takaroa”
- Norwegian: “Takaroa”
- Polish: “Takaroa”
- Portuguese: “Takaroa”
- Russian: “Такароа”
- Slovak: “Takaroa”
- Spanish: “Takaroa”
- Swahili: “Takaroa”
- Tahitian: “Takaroa”
- Western Mari: “Такароа”
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