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Tuvalu

Funafuti

Funafuti is the main island and capital of the island nation of . It consists of a very thin strip of land, in a roughly oval shape, with the relatively massive Te Namo Lagoon in the center.
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  • Type: Town with 6,320 residents
  • Description: capital of Tuvalu
  • Also known as: “Funafuti Island”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Funafuti International Airport and Teone Church.

Aerodrome
Photo: New Zealand Defence Force, CC BY 2.0.
is an in on Funafuti, an atoll that serves as the capital of the island nation of . It is the sole international airport in . Fiji Airways operates between , and Funafuti.

Church
The also alternatively known as the Catholic Church of Teone or the Catholic Centre of Teone, is a religious building in on the south coast of in the atoll of Funafuti, which is the economic center of in Oceania.

Hotel
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Funafuti Lagoon Hotel formally known as Vaiaku Langi Hotel, or , is situated in Funafuti, in the Pacific island nation of . The hotel was built in 1993 with financial assistance from the government of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vaiaku and Senala.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a located on the southern coast of the of in the atoll of Funafuti in , which is home to most of the major administrative buildings.

Village
is a village in , located on the Funafuti atoll, on the island of . The settlement has an area of 0.13 km2. In 2001, it was inhabited by 574 people, and by 1207 in 2012.

Village
is a village on the atoll of Funafuti, . According to 2012 census, there were 1029 inhabitants. The area of the village is 0.11 km2.

Funafuti

Latitude
-8.52° or 8° 31′ 12″ south
Longitude
179.1983° or 179° 11′ 54″ east
Population
6,320
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
FUN
United Nations Location Code
TV FUN
Open location code
6V3XF5JX+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3376265049
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2110394
Wiki­data ID
Q34126
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Funafuti” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Funafuti”
  • Afrikaans: “Funafuti”
  • Albanian: “Funafuti”
  • Amharic: “ፉናፉቲ”
  • Arabic: “فونافوتي”
  • Armenian: “Թուվալուի մայրաքաղաք”
  • Armenian: “Ֆունաֆուտի”
  • Asturian: “Funafuti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Funafuti”
  • Balinese: “Funafuti”
  • Bashkir: “Фунафути”
  • Basque: “Funafuti”
  • Belarusian: “Атол Фунафуці”
  • Belarusian: “Фунафуці”
  • Bengali: “ফুনাফুটি”
  • Bengali: “ফুনাফুতি”
  • Bosnian: “Funafuti”
  • Breton: “Funafuti”
  • Bulgarian: “Фунафути”
  • Catalan: “Funafuti”
  • Cebuano: “Funafuti (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Funafuti”
  • Chinese: “Funafuti”
  • Chinese: “富納富提”
  • Chinese: “富纳富提”
  • Chinese: “福納佛提”
  • Croatian: “Funafuti”
  • Czech: “Funafuti”
  • Danish: “Funafuti”
  • Dutch: “Funafuti”
  • Esperanto: “Funafuti”
  • Esperanto: “Funafutio”
  • Estonian: “Funafuti”
  • Faroese: “Funafuti”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Funafuti”
  • Finnish: “Funafuti”
  • French: “Funafuti”
  • French: “Vaiaku”
  • Galician: “Funafuti”
  • Georgian: “ფუნაფუტი”
  • German: “Funafuti”
  • German: “TV-FUN”
  • Greek: “Φουναφούτι”
  • Haitian: “Founafouti”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Funafuti”
  • Hausa: “Funafuti”
  • Hebrew: “פונאפוטי”
  • Hebrew: “פנאפוטי”
  • Hindi: “फ़नाफ़ुटि”
  • Hindi: “फुनाफुति द्वीप”
  • Hindi: “फुनाफुति”
  • Hungarian: “Funafuti”
  • Icelandic: “Fúnafútí”
  • Ido: “Funafuti”
  • Indonesian: “Funafuti”
  • Interlingua: “Funafuti”
  • Interlingue: “Funafuti”
  • Irish: “Funafuti”
  • Italian: “Funafuti”
  • Italian: “Funafutti”
  • Japanese: “フナフチ”
  • Japanese: “フナフチ島”
  • Japanese: “フナフティ”
  • Japanese: “フナフティ島”
  • Japanese: “フナフティ環礁”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Фунафути”
  • Kazakh: “Фунафути”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Funafuti”
  • Korean: “푸나푸티 환초”
  • Korean: “푸나푸티”
  • Latin: “Funafuti”
  • Latin: “Funafutina”
  • Latvian: “Funafuti atols”
  • Latvian: “Funafuti”
  • Ligurian: “Funafuti”
  • Lithuanian: “Funafutis”
  • Lombard: “Funafuti”
  • Luxembourgish: “Funafuti”
  • Macedonian: “Фунафути”
  • Malay: “Funafuti”
  • Malayalam: “ഫ്യൂനഫ്യൂടി”
  • Maltese: “Funafuti”
  • Marathi: “फुनाफुती”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Funafuti”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Funafuti”
  • Minangkabau: “Funafuti”
  • Mingrelian: “ფუნაფუტი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “فونافوتي”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Funafuti”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Funafuti”
  • Norwegian: “Funafuti”
  • Nyanja: “Funafuti”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Funafuti”
  • Ossetian: “Фунафути”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ੁਨਾਫ਼ੁਤੀ”
  • Persian: “فونافوتی”
  • Piemontese: “Funafuti”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Funafuti”
  • Polish: “Funafuti”
  • Portuguese: “Fongafale”
  • Portuguese: “Funafuti”
  • Pushto: “فونافوتي”
  • Romanian: “Funafuti”
  • Russian: “Фунафути”
  • Sardinian: “Funafuti”
  • Scots: “Funafuti”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Funafuti”
  • Serbian: “Фунафути”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Funafuti”
  • Shona: “Funafuti”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුනාෆුටි, ටුවාලු”
  • Slovak: “Funafuti”
  • Slovenian: “Funafuti”
  • Spanish: “Fongafale (atolón de Funafuti)”
  • Spanish: “Funafuti”
  • Swahili: “Funafuti”
  • Swedish: “Funafuti”
  • Tagalog: “Funafuti”
  • Tajik: “Фунафути”
  • Tamil: “புனாபுட்டி”
  • Tatar: “Фунафути”
  • Thai: “ฟูนาฟูตี”
  • Tibetan: “ཕུ་ན་ཕུ་ཊི་”
  • Tibetan: “ཕུ་ན་ཕུ་ཊི།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Funafuti”
  • Turkish: “Funafuti”
  • Ukrainian: “Фунафуті”
  • Urdu: “فونافوتی”
  • Uzbek: “Funafuti”
  • Veps: “Funafuti”
  • Vietnamese: “Funafuti”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Funafuti”
  • Welsh: “Funafuti”
  • Welsh: “Fwnafwti”
  • Western Mari: “Фунафути”
  • Wu Chinese: “富纳富提”
  • Yakut: “Фунафути”
  • Yue Chinese: “富納富提”
  • Zulu: “i-Funafuti”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Funafuti”. Photo: Cornischong, CC BY-SA 2.0.