Moorea
Moorea is an island in the Society Islands archipelago, a few kilometers off the northwest coast of Tahiti. If you are visiting French Polynesia on a budget, Moorea is the place to be. Moorea is like Tahiti but cheaper and less touristy.
- Island
- …has about 16,200 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,210 metres (3,960 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code MOZ
- …was formerly known as “Maurea”
- Description: island in French Polynesia
- Also known as“Duke of York’s Island”“Ile Moorea”“Mooréa Island”“Santo Domingo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Tohivea and Mt Rotu’i.
Mount Tohivea
Mount Tohivea is the highest point on the island of Mo'orea in French Polynesia at 1,207 metres.
Moorea
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Latitude
-17.5328° or 17° 31′ 58″ south
Longitude
-149.828° or 149° 49′ 41″ west
Open location code
53JGF58C+VR
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Moorea” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moorea”
- Arabic: “موريا”
- Basque: “Moorea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Мурэа”
- Belarusian: “Мурэа”
- Bulgarian: “Мореа”
- Catalan: “Moorea”
- Cebuano: “Moorea”
- Chinese: “摩丽雅岛”
- Chinese: “摩麗雅島”
- Chinese: “茉莉亞”
- Chinese: “茉莉亞島”
- Chinese: “莫雷阿岛”
- Chinese: “莫雷阿島”
- Czech: “Moorea”
- Danish: “Moorea”
- Dutch: “Moorea”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موريا”
- Esperanto: “Moorea”
- Estonian: “Moorea”
- Finnish: “Moorea”
- French: “Aimeho”
- French: “Aimeo”
- French: “Eimeo”
- French: “ʻAimeho-nui-i-te-rara-varu”
- French: “île du Duc d’York”
- French: “Moʻoreʻa”
- French: “Morea”
- Galician: “Moorea”
- German: “Eimeo”
- German: “Moorea”
- Hebrew: “מוריאה”
- Hungarian: “Moorea”
- Indonesian: “Moorea”
- Italian: “Isola Moorea”
- Italian: “Moorea”
- Japanese: “モーレア”
- Japanese: “モーレア島”
- Latvian: “Moorea”
- Lithuanian: “Moorea”
- Lithuanian: “Moorėja”
- Lithuanian: “Morea”
- Lithuanian: “Murea”
- Macedonian: “Моореа”
- Macedonian: “Моореја”
- Malay: “Moorea”
- Northern Frisian: “Moorea”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moorea”
- Norwegian: “Moorea”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ مواوریا”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ موری”
- Persian: “موئورئا”
- Persian: “مواوریا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mo’orea”
- Polish: “Moorea”
- Portuguese: “Moorea”
- Russian: “Моореа”
- Russian: “Муреа”
- Spanish: “Moorea”
- Swedish: “Moorea”
- Swiss German: “Moorea”
- Tahitian: “Moʻoreʻa”
- Thai: “Moorea”
- Thai: “โมโอเรอา”
- Turkish: “Moʼorea”
- Ukrainian: “Муреа”
- Urdu: “مووریا”
- Vietnamese: “Moorea”
- Welsh: “Moorea”
- Western Frisian: “Mo‘orea”
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