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Fa’a’ā

Faʼaʼā is a commune in the suburbs of in , an overseas country of in the Pacific Ocean. Faʼaʼā is located on the island of , in the of the , themselves part of the .
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  • Type: Town with 29,900 residents
  • Description: Tahitian commune in French Polynesia, France
  • Also known as: “Faa’a”, “Faaa”, “Faʻaʻā”, “Faʼaʼā”, and “Torea”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fa’a’ā International Airport and Uranie Cemetery.

Aerodrome
Photo: FRED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Faaʼa International Airport, also known as Tahiti International Airport, is the international airport of , located in the commune of Faʼaʼā, on the island of .

Cemetery
Photo: Ya6ne, CC BY-SA 4.0.

School
The is a secondary school in , . The school originated from the École Centrale, which became the collège Paul Gauguin on 10 August 1953.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Papeete.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is the capital city of , an overseas collectivity of the in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Papeʻetē is located on the island of , in the administrative subdivision of the , of which Papeʻetē is the administrative capital.

Fa’a’ā

Latitude
-17.5527° or 17° 33′ 10″ south
Longitude
-149.6° or 149° 36′ west
Population
29,900
Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PF FAA
Open location code
53JGC9WX+WX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7045400580
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4034561
Wiki­data ID
Q1022934
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fa’a’ā” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Faaa”
  • Arabic: “فا (بولينزيا الفرنسية)”
  • Arabic: “فا”
  • Aragonese: “Faaa”
  • Arpitan: “Faaa”
  • Asturian: “Faaa”
  • Bambara: “Faaa”
  • Basque: “Faaa”
  • Bavarian: “Faaa”
  • Breton: “Faaa”
  • Bulgarian: “Фаа’а”
  • Bulgarian: “Фааа”
  • Cajun French: “Faaa”
  • Catalan: “Fa’a’a”
  • Catalan: “Faaa”
  • Cebuano: “Faaa”
  • Chinese: “法阿”
  • Corsican: “Faaa”
  • Croatian: “Faaa”
  • Czech: “Faaa”
  • Danish: “Faaa”
  • Dutch: “Faaa”
  • Esperanto: “Faaa”
  • Estonian: “Faaa”
  • Estonian: “Faʻaʻā”
  • Faroese: “Faaa”
  • Finnish: “Faa’a”
  • French: “commune de Faaa”
  • French: “Faa’a”
  • French: “Faaa”
  • Friulian: “Faaa”
  • Galician: “Faaa”
  • German: “Faa’a”
  • German: “Faaa”
  • Greek: “Φααά”
  • Hebrew: “פאאה”
  • Hungarian: “Faaa”
  • Icelandic: “Faaa”
  • Ido: “Faaa”
  • Indonesian: “Faaa”
  • Interlingua: “Faaa”
  • Interlingue: “Faaa”
  • Irish: “Fa’a’ā”
  • Italian: “Fa‘a‘ā”
  • Italian: “Faa’a”
  • Italian: “Faaa”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Faaa”
  • Japanese: “ファアア”
  • Kabyle: “Faaa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Faaa”
  • Kongo: “Faaa”
  • Korean: “파아아”
  • Latvian: “Faaa”
  • Ligurian: “Faaa”
  • Limburgan: “Faaa”
  • Lithuanian: “Faa’a”
  • Lithuanian: “Faaa”
  • Low German: “Faaa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Faaa”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Faaa”
  • Malagasy: “Faaa”
  • Malay: “Faaa”
  • Minangkabau: “Faaa”
  • Narom: “Faaa”
  • Neapolitan: “Faaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faa’a”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faaa”
  • Norwegian: “Faa’a”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Faaa”
  • Papiamento: “Faaa”
  • Picard: “Faaa”
  • Piemontese: “Faaa”
  • Polish: “Faaa”
  • Portuguese: “Faa’a”
  • Portuguese: “Faaa”
  • Prussian: “Faaa”
  • Romagnol: “Faaa”
  • Romanian: “Faaa”
  • Romansh: “Faaa”
  • Russian: “Фаа (коммуна)”
  • Russian: “Фаа (Таити)”
  • Russian: “Фаа (Франция)”
  • Russian: “Фаа”
  • Sardinian: “Faaa”
  • Scots: “Faaa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Faaa”
  • Serbian: “Faaa”
  • Serbian: “Фааа”
  • Sicilian: “Faaa”
  • Slovak: “Faaa”
  • Slovenian: “Faa’a”
  • Spanish: “Faaa”
  • Swahili: “Faaa”
  • Swedish: “Faaa”
  • Swiss German: “Faaa”
  • Tahitian: “Fa’a’a”
  • Tahitian: “Faa’a”
  • Tahitian: “Faaa”
  • Turkish: “Faaa”
  • Urdu: “فا”
  • Venetian: “Faaa”
  • Vietnamese: “Faa’a”
  • Vietnamese: “Faaa”
  • Vietnamese: “Faaʻa”
  • Vlaams: “Faaa”
  • Volapük: “Faaa”
  • Walloon: “Faaa”
  • Welsh: “Faaa”
  • Wolof: “Faaa”
  • Zulu: “Faaa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fa’a’ā”. Photo: FRED, CC BY-SA 3.0.