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.
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Efate
- Island
- …has 50,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 169 metres (554 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Sandwich Island”
- Description: Vanuatu island
- Also known as“Efate Island”“Fate”“Ile Vaté”
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
-17.679° or 17° 40′ 44″ south
Longitude
168.3942° or 168° 23′ 39″ east
Open location code
5VJC89CV+CM
GeoNames ID
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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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