Bora Bora
Bora Bora is a volcanic island in the Society Islands archipelago of French Polynesia. The Polynesian island in the South Pacific is ranked at the top of the list when it comes to most remarkably beautiful in the world. The best time to visit is May.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Bola-bola”, “Bora Bora, French Polynesia”, “Borabora Island”, “Faanui”, “Ile Bora-Bora”, “Ilha de Bora Bora”, “San Pedro”, and “Vavao”
Photo: Hervé, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: LecomteB, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: The TerraMar Project, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Otemanu and Mount Pahia.
Mount Otemanu
Peak
Photo: Taka-0905, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Otemanu is a mountain located in the South Pacific, on the island of Bora Bora. With an elevation of 727 metres above sea level, it is the highest point of the island.
Mount Pahia
Peak
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Pahia is a mountain located in the South Pacific, on the island of Bora Bora. With an elevation of 661 metres above sea level, it is the second-highest point of the island, after the neighboring Mount Otemanu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vaitape.
Vaitape
Town
Photo: Makemake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vaitape is the largest city of Bora Bora Island in French Polynesia. It has a population of 4,927, about half of the island's population which is about 10,605.
Bora Bora
- Categories: island group, human settlement, and landform
- Location: Leeward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Bora Bora from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Bora Bora” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bora Bora”
- Albanian: “Bora Bora”
- Arabic: “Bora Bora”
- Arabic: “بورا بورا”
- Armenian: “Բորա Բորա”
- Azerbaijani: “Bora-Bora”
- Balinese: “Bora Bora”
- Basque: “Bora Bora”
- Belarusian: “Бора-Бора”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Бора-Бора”
- Bengali: “বোরা বোরা দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bosnian: “Bora Bora”
- Bulgarian: “Бора Бора”
- Catalan: “Bora Bora”
- Central Kurdish: “بۆرا بۆرا”
- Chinese: “博拉博拉島”
- Chinese: “波拉波拉”
- Chinese: “波拉波拉岛”
- Chinese: “波拉波拉島”
- Croatian: “Bora Bora”
- Croatian: “Bora-Bora”
- Czech: “Bora Bora”
- Czech: “Bora-Bora”
- Danish: “Bora Bora”
- Dutch: “Bora Bora”
- Dutch: “Bora-Bora”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورا بورا”
- Esperanto: “Bora Bora”
- Estonian: “Bora Bora”
- Fiji Hindi: “Bora Bora”
- Finnish: “Bora Bora”
- Finnish: “Bora-Bora”
- Finnish: “Vavau tai Mai Te Pora”
- French: “Bora Bora”
- French: “Bora-Bora”
- Galician: “Atol Bora Bora”
- Galician: “Bora Bora”
- Georgian: “ბორა-ბორა”
- German: “Bora Bora”
- German: “Pora pora”
- Greek: “Μπόρα Μπόρα”
- Hebrew: “בורה בורה”
- Hungarian: “Bora Bora”
- Indonesian: “Bora Bora”
- Italian: “Bora Bora”
- Italian: “Bora-Bora”
- Japanese: “ボラボラ島”
- Kazakh: “Бора-Бора”
- Korean: “보라보라섬”
- Latvian: “Borabora”
- Lithuanian: “Bora Bora”
- Lithuanian: “Bora-Bora”
- Macedonian: “Бора Бора”
- Malayalam: “ബോറ ബോറ”
- Marathi: “बोरा बोरा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bora Bora”
- Norwegian: “Bora Bora”
- Ossetian: “Борæ-Борæ”
- Persian: “بورا بورا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bora Bora”
- Polish: “Bora Bora”
- Polish: “Bora-Bora”
- Portuguese: “Bora Bora, Polinésia Francesa”
- Portuguese: “Bora Bora”
- Portuguese: “Bora-bora”
- Romanian: “Bora Bora”
- Romanian: “Insula bora bora”
- Romanian: “Insula Bora Bora”
- Russian: “Бора Бора”
- Russian: “Бора-Бора”
- Russian: “Борабора”
- Scots: “Bora Bora”
- Serbian: “Bora Bora”
- Serbian: “Бора Бора”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bora Bora”
- Slovak: “Bora Bora”
- Slovenian: “Bora Bora”
- Slovenian: “Bora-Bora”
- Spanish: “Bora Bora”
- Sundanese: “Bora Bora”
- Swedish: “Bora Bora”
- Swedish: “Borabora”
- Swiss German: “Bora Bora”
- Tahitian: “Pora Pora”
- Tahitian: “Porapora”
- Tamil: “போரா போரா”
- Thai: “Bora Bora”
- Thai: “บอราบอรา”
- Thai: “โบรา โบรา”
- Thai: “โบราโบรา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bora Bora”
- Turkish: “Bora Bora”
- Ukrainian: “Бора-Бора”
- Urdu: “بورا بورا”
- Uzbek: “Bora - Bora”
- Uzbek: “Bora-Bora”
- Vietnamese: “Bora Bora”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bora Bora”
- Welsh: “Bora Bora”
- Western Frisian: “Bora Bora”
- Wu Chinese: “波拉波拉岛”
- “Bora Bora”
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