Efate
Efate, originally named Sandwich Island and also known as Île Vate or just Vate, is an island in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Shefa Province in Vanuatu, and the capital city, Port Vila, is located on the island.Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
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Port Vila
Photo: eGuide Travel, CC BY 2.0.
Port Vila is the capital of Vanuatu. Vanuatu's largest town, with some 50,000 people, it lies on the south coast of the island of Efate in the province of Shefa, right in the middle of the archipelago.
Efate
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Efate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيفات”
- Asturian: “Efate”
- Asturian: “Éfaté”
- Basque: “Efate”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Эфатэ”
- Belarusian: “Эфатэ”
- Bislama: “Efate”
- Bulgarian: “Ефате”
- Catalan: “Efate”
- Catalan: “Éfaté”
- Cebuano: “Éfaté Island”
- Chinese: “埃法特岛”
- Croatian: “Efate”
- Czech: “Efate”
- Dutch: “Efate”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افات”
- Esperanto: “Efate”
- Estonian: “Efate”
- Finnish: “Efate”
- French: “Éfaté”
- Galician: “Efaté”
- Georgian: “ეფატე”
- German: “Efate”
- German: “Éfaté”
- Greek: “Εφάτε”
- Hindi: “एफ़ाते”
- Indonesian: “Efate”
- Italian: “Éfaté”
- Japanese: “エファテ島”
- Korean: “에파테섬”
- Lithuanian: “Efatė”
- Macedonian: “Ефате”
- Marathi: “एफाटे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Efate”
- Persian: “آتشفشان افات”
- Polish: “Efate”
- Polish: “Éfaté”
- Portuguese: “Éfaté”
- Russian: “Эфате”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Efate”
- Silesian: “Efate”
- Slovenian: “Efate”
- Slovenian: “Île Vate”
- Spanish: “Efate”
- Spanish: “Éfaté”
- Swahili: “Efate”
- Swedish: “Éfaté”
- Ukrainian: “Ефате”
- Vietnamese: “Efate”
- Western Mari: “Эфате”
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