French Polynesia
Tuamotu Islands
Îles Tuamotu-Gambier

Fakarava

Fakarava, Havaiki-te-araro, Havai'i or Farea is an atoll in the west of the Tuamotu group in . It is the second largest of the Tuamotu atolls.
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  • Type: Town with 837 residents
  • Description: atoll in French Polynesia
  • Also known as: “Fakarava Atoll”, “Fakarawa”, “Farea”, “Havai’i”, “Havaiki-te-araro”, “Rotoava”, “Vitgenshteyn”, and “Wittgenstein”
  • Historically known as: “Fakarava Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Saint-Jean-de-la-Croix de Fakarava.

Church
Photo: Wmpearl, CC0.
is a church.

Fakarava

Latitude
-16.0564° or 16° 3′ 23″ south
Longitude
-145.6186° or 145° 37′ 7″ west
Population
837
IATA airport code
FAV
Open location code
53MPW9VJ+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5545694898
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4034510
Wiki­data ID
Q1346999
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fakarava” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fakarava”
  • Aragonese: “Fakarava”
  • Arpitan: “Fakarava”
  • Asturian: “Fakarava”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fakarava”
  • Bambara: “Fakarava”
  • Basque: “Fakarava”
  • Bavarian: “Fakarava”
  • Belarusian: “Факарава”
  • Breton: “Fakarava”
  • Cajun French: “Fakarava”
  • Catalan: “Fakarava”
  • Chechen: “ГӀотоава”
  • Chinese: “法卡拉瓦环礁”
  • Chinese: “法卡拉瓦環礁”
  • Corsican: “Fakarava”
  • Croatian: “Fakarava”
  • Czech: “Fakarava”
  • Danish: “Fakarava”
  • Dutch: “Fakarava”
  • Esperanto: “Fakarava”
  • Estonian: “Fakarava”
  • Extremaduran: “Fakarava”
  • Finnish: “Fakarava”
  • French: “Atoll de Fakarava”
  • French: “Fakarava”
  • Friulian: “Fakarava”
  • Galician: “Atol Fakarava”
  • Galician: “Fakarava”
  • German: “Fakarava”
  • Hungarian: “Fakarava”
  • Ido: “Fakarava”
  • Indonesian: “Fakarava”
  • Interlingua: “Fakarava”
  • Interlingue: “Fakarava”
  • Irish: “Fakarava”
  • Italian: “Fakarava”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Fakarava”
  • Japanese: “ファカラヴァ環礁”
  • Kabyle: “Fakarava”
  • Kongo: “Fakarava”
  • Latvian: “Fakarava”
  • Ligurian: “Fakarava”
  • Limburgan: “Fakarava”
  • Lithuanian: “Fakarava”
  • Low German: “Fakarava”
  • Luxembourgish: “Fakarava”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Fakarava”
  • Malagasy: “Fakarava”
  • Malay: “Fakarava”
  • Minangkabau: “Fakarava”
  • Narom: “Fakarava”
  • Neapolitan: “Fakarava”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fakarava”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fakarava”
  • Norwegian: “Fakarava”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fakarava”
  • Papiamento: “Fakarava”
  • Persian: “فاکاروا”
  • Picard: “Fakarava”
  • Piemontese: “Fakarava”
  • Polish: “Fakarava”
  • Portuguese: “Fakarava”
  • Prussian: “Fakarava”
  • Romagnol: “Fakarava”
  • Romanian: “Fakarava”
  • Romansh: “Fakarava”
  • Russian: “Атолл Витгенштейна”
  • Russian: “Факарава”
  • Sardinian: “Fakarava”
  • Scots: “Fakarava”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fakarava”
  • Serbian: “Fakarava”
  • Sicilian: “Fakarava”
  • Slovak: “Fakarava”
  • Spanish: “Fakarava”
  • Spanish: “Havaiki-te-araro”
  • Swahili: “Fakarava”
  • Swedish: “Fakarava”
  • Swiss German: “Fakarava”
  • Tahitian: “Fakarava”
  • Thai: “Fakarava”
  • Thai: “ฟาการาวา”
  • Turkish: “Fakarava”
  • Urdu: “فاکاراوا”
  • Venetian: “Fakarava”
  • Vietnamese: “Fakarava”
  • Vlaams: “Fakarava”
  • Volapük: “Fakarava”
  • Walloon: “Fakarava”
  • Welsh: “Fakarava”
  • Western Mari: “Факарава”
  • Wolof: “Fakarava”
  • Zulu: “Fakarava”

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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 “Fakarava”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.