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Port Vila

Port Vila is the capital of . Vanuatu's largest town, with some 50,000 people, it lies on the south coast of the island of in the province of , right in the middle of the archipelago.
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  • Type: City with 44,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Vanuatu
  • Also known as: “Fila”, “Franceville”, and “Vila”
  • Historically known as: “Port Fila”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Vanuatu and Luganville Soccer Stadium.

Museum
Photo: flissphil, CC BY 2.0.
The is located in the Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Port Vila, . It specializes in exhibits relating to the culture and history of this group of islands in the South Pacific.

Stadium
Photo: Mtemar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Luganville Soccer City Stadium is a sports stadium located in , . It is the main stadium for the Luganville Football Association's TVL League.

Church
Photo: Gérard Janot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a modern Catholic cathedral in Port Vila, . It is the seat of the Diocese of Port-Vila. The church is dedicated to the sacred Heart of Jesus. Bishop Jean Bosco Baremes has served as Bishop of Port Vila since 2009.

Port Vila

Latitude
-17.7415° or 17° 44′ 29″ south
Longitude
168.315° or 168° 18′ 54″ east
Population
44,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
VLI
United Nations Location Code
VU VLI
Open location code
5VJC7858+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 115622916
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2135171
Wiki­data ID
Q37806
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Port Vila” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Port Vila”
  • Afrikaans: “Port Vila”
  • Albanian: “Port Vila”
  • Amharic: “ፖርት ቪላ”
  • Arabic: “بورت فيلا”
  • Aragonese: “Port Vila”
  • Armenian: “Պորտ Վիլա”
  • Asturian: “Port Vila”
  • Asturian: “Puertu Villa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port Vila”
  • Balinese: “Port Vila”
  • Bashkir: “Порт-Вила”
  • Basque: “Port Vila”
  • Belarusian: “Порт Віла”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-Віла”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট ভিলা”
  • Bislama: “Port Vila”
  • Bislama: “Vila”
  • Bosnian: “Port Vila”
  • Breton: “Port Vila”
  • Bulgarian: “Порт Вила”
  • Catalan: “Port Vila”
  • Cebuano: “Port-Vila”
  • Chinese: “Port Vila”
  • Chinese: “維拉港”
  • Chinese: “维拉港”
  • Croatian: “Port Vila”
  • Czech: “Port Vila”
  • Czech: “Port-Vila”
  • Danish: “Port Vila”
  • Danish: “Port-Vila”
  • Dutch: “Port Vila”
  • Dutch: “Port-Vila”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورت فيلا”
  • Esperanto: “Port Vila”
  • Esperanto: “Portvilao”
  • Esperanto: “Vilao”
  • Estonian: “Port Vila”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Port Vila”
  • Fijian: “Port Vila”
  • Finnish: “Port Vila”
  • French: “Port Vila”
  • French: “Port-vila”
  • French: “Port-Vila”
  • Galician: “Port Vila”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-ვილა”
  • German: “Port Vila”
  • Greek: “Βίλα”
  • Greek: “Πορτ Βίλα”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટ વિલા”
  • Haitian: “Pò Vila”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Port Vila”
  • Hebrew: “פורט וילה”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट विला”
  • Hungarian: “Port Vila”
  • Icelandic: “Port Vila”
  • Ido: “Port Vila”
  • Ido: “Vila”
  • Indonesian: “Port Vila”
  • Interlingue: “Port Vila”
  • Irish: “Port Vila”
  • Italian: “Port Vila”
  • Japanese: “ポートビラ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ವಿಲ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Порт-Вила”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-Вила”
  • Kirghiz: “Порт-Вила”
  • Korean: “포트 빌라”
  • Korean: “포트빌라”
  • Latin: “Portus Vila”
  • Latvian: “Port Vila”
  • Latvian: “Portvila”
  • Latvian: “Vila”
  • Ligurian: “Porto Vila”
  • Lithuanian: “Port Vila”
  • Lombard: “Port Vila”
  • Luxembourgish: “Port Vila”
  • Macedonian: “Порт Вила”
  • Malagasy: “Port Vila”
  • Malay: “Port Vila”
  • Malayalam: “പോർട്ട് വില”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट व्हिला”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Port Vila”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Port Vila”
  • Minangkabau: “Port Vila”
  • Mingrelian: “პორტ-ვილა”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پورت ڤيلا”
  • Nauru: “Port Vila”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Vila”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Vila”
  • Norwegian: “Port Vila”
  • Nyanja: “Port Vila”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Port Vila”
  • Ossetian: “Порт-Вилæ”
  • Ossetian: “Порт-Вила”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਟ ਵਿਲਾ”
  • Persian: “پورت ویلا”
  • Piemontese: “Port Vila”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Port Wiila”
  • Polish: “Port Vila”
  • Portuguese: “Port Vila”
  • Portuguese: “Port-Vila”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Vila”
  • Pushto: “پورت ویلا”
  • Romanian: “Port Vila”
  • Russian: “Вила”
  • Russian: “Порт Вила”
  • Russian: “Порт-Вила”
  • Russian: “Порта-Вила”
  • Samogitian: “Port Vila”
  • Sardinian: “Port Vila”
  • Scots: “Port Vila”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Port Vila”
  • Serbian: “Порт Вила”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port Vila”
  • Shona: “Port Vila”
  • Silesian: “Port Vila”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ට් විලා, වනුආටු”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ට් විලා”
  • Slovak: “Port Vila”
  • Slovenian: “Port Vila”
  • Spanish: “Port Vila”
  • Spanish: “Port-Vila”
  • Spanish: “Vila”
  • Swahili: “Port Vila”
  • Swedish: “Port Vila”
  • Swedish: “Vila”
  • Tahitian: “Port-Vila”
  • Tajik: “Порт-Вила”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட் விலா”
  • Tatar: “Порт-Вила”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్ విలా”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตวิลา”
  • Tibetan: “ཝེ་ལ་གྲུ་ཁ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཝེ་ལ་གྲུ་ཁ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Port Vila”
  • Tok Pisin: “Pot Vila”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pooti Vila”
  • Turkish: “Port Vila”
  • Ukrainian: “Віла”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-Віла”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ ولا”
  • Uzbek: “Port-vila”
  • Uzbek: “Port-Vila”
  • Uzbek: “Vila”
  • Veps: “Port Vil”
  • Vietnamese: “Port Vila”
  • Vietnamese: “Port-Vila”
  • Volapük: “Port Vila”
  • Võro: “Port Vila”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Port Vila”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Port Villa”
  • Welsh: “Port Vila”
  • Western Frisian: “Port Fila”
  • Western Frisian: “Port Vila”
  • Western Mari: “Порт-Вила”
  • Wu Chinese: “维拉港”
  • Yakut: “Порт Вила”
  • Yue Chinese: “維拉港”
  • Zeeuws: “Port Vila”
  • Zulu: “i-Port Vila”
  • “Port Vila”

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