Luganville

Luganville, also known by the names Santo and Kanal is the largest town on , and with about 16,000 inhabitants second largest in Vanuatu.
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  • Type: City with 13,200 residents
  • Description: town in Vanuatu
  • Also known as: Louganville” and “Luganville Bay

Luganville

Latitude
-15.5121° or 15° 30′ 44″ south
Longitude
167.1784° or 167° 10′ 42″ east
Population
13,200
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
SON
United Nations Location Codes
VU LUG and VU SAN
Open location code
5VP9F5QH+59
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2087030825
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2136150
Wiki­data ID
Q876557
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Luganville” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Luganville
  • Amharic: ሉጋንቪል
  • Arabic: لوغانفيل
  • Asturian: Luganville
  • Azerbaijani: Luganville
  • Belarusian: Луганвіл
  • Belarusian: Луганвіль
  • Bengali: লুগানভিল
  • Bislama: Kanal
  • Bislama: Luganville
  • Bislama: Santo
  • Bulgarian: Луганвиле
  • Cebuano: Luganville
  • Chinese: 卢甘维尔
  • Chinese: 盧甘維爾
  • Croatian: Luganville
  • Czech: Luganville
  • Danish: Luganville
  • Dutch: Canal du Segond
  • Dutch: Canal
  • Dutch: Luganville
  • Egyptian Arabic: لوجانفيل
  • Finnish: Luganville
  • French: Luganville
  • French: Santo
  • German: Luganville
  • Hausa: Luganville
  • Hebrew: לוגנוויל
  • Hindi: लुगनविले
  • Icelandic: Luganville
  • Indonesian: Luganville
  • Irish: Luganville
  • Italian: Luganville
  • Japanese: ルーガンビル
  • Javanese: Luganville
  • Kazakh: Луганвиль
  • Kirghiz: Луганвиль
  • Korean: 루간빌
  • Latvian: Liganvila
  • Lithuanian: Liuganvilis
  • Lithuanian: Luganvilis
  • Macedonian: Луганвил
  • Malay: Luganville
  • Nauru: Luganville
  • Northern Frisian: Luganville
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Luganville
  • Norwegian: Luganville
  • Oromo: Luganville
  • Panjabi: ਲੁਗਨਵਿਲ
  • Persian: لگانویل
  • Persian: لوگان‌ویل
  • Polish: Luganville
  • Portuguese: Luganville
  • Pushto: لوګانویل
  • Russian: Люганвиль
  • Serbian: Луганвил
  • Somali: Luganville
  • Spanish: Luganville
  • Swahili: Luganville
  • Swedish: Luganville
  • Tajik: Луганвиль
  • Tatar: Луганвиль
  • Turkish: Luganville
  • Ukrainian: Луганвіль
  • Urdu: لوگانویل
  • Urdu: لوگن ویل
  • Uzbek: Luganville
  • Veps: Lüganvil’
  • Veps: Luganvill
  • Western Mari: Луганвилл

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