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Réunion

Réunion is a overseas department located in the midst of the , east of the island of and 200 kilometres to the south-west of , in .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Saint-Denis and Piton de la Fournaise.

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is the capital of Réunion, and the city with the most inhabitants on the island. It hosts all the important administrative offices, and is also a cultural centre with numerous museums.

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is the only active volcano on Réunion Island, and one of the most active in the world. Rising to 2,631 m above sea level, locals know it as "Le Volcan".

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is a small town in the west coast of Réunion and has a bathing resort thanks to its pebble beach.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Réunion National Park and Petite-Île.

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is a French national park on the overseas department of Réunion. The "inner zone" of the national park has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010.

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is a commune on the island and department of Réunion. The commune is bordered by the communes of to the east and to the west.

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is a village located along the west coast of the island of Réunion, in the commune of . It is the site of the island's most popular seaside resort.

Réunion

Latitude of center
-21.1178° or 21° 7′ 4″ south
Longitude of center
55.5331° or 55° 31′ 59″ east
Population
854,000
Area
2,517 km² (972 miles²)
Elevation
1,071 metres (3,514 feet)
Capital
Saint-Denis
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.re
Internet domain
262
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297956
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
935317
Wiki­data ID
Q17070
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Réunion” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Reunion”
  • Afrikaans: “Réunion”
  • Akan: “Reyuniɔn”
  • Albanian: “Reunion”
  • Albanian: “Reunioni”
  • Amharic: “ሪዩኒየን”
  • Amharic: “ሬዩንዮን”
  • Arabic: “روينيون”
  • Arabic: “ريونيون”
  • Arabic: “لا ريونيون”
  • Aragonese: “Reunión”
  • Armenian: “Ռեյունիոն”
  • Armenian: “Ռեյունյոն”
  • Arpitan: “La Reunion”
  • Arpitan: “Rèunion”
  • Assamese: “ৰিইউনিয়ন”
  • Asturian: “Islla de la Reunión”
  • Asturian: “Islla Reunión”
  • Asturian: “Reunión”
  • Azerbaijani: “Reünyon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Reyunyon”
  • Balinese: “Réunion”
  • Bambara: “Reyuɲɔŋ”
  • Basque: “La Réunion”
  • Basque: “Reunion”
  • Basque: “Réunion”
  • Bavarian: “Réunion”
  • Belarusian: “Réunion”
  • Belarusian: “Руньён”
  • Belarusian: “Рэюньён”
  • Bengali: “বোর্বন দ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “রিইউনিয়ন দ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “রিইউনিয়ন”
  • Bengali: “রেউনিওঁ”
  • Bengali: “লা রিইউনিয়ন”
  • Bishnupriya: “রিইউনিয়ন”
  • Bosnian: “Reunion”
  • Bosnian: “Réunion”
  • Breton: “Ar Reünion”
  • Breton: “Enez ar Reunion”
  • Breton: “Enez ar Reünion”
  • Bulgarian: “Реюнион”
  • Burmese: “ရီယူနီယန်”
  • Catalan: “Illa de la Reunió”
  • Catalan: “la Reunió”
  • Catalan: “Reunió”
  • Cebuano: “Réunion”
  • Central Bikol: “Réunion”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕیۆنیۆن”
  • Chechen: “ГӀеуьньон”
  • Chechen: “Реюньон”
  • Chinese: “Liúníwāng”
  • Chinese: “Réunion”
  • Chinese: “留尼旺”
  • Chinese: “留尼汪”
  • Cornish: “Réunion”
  • Corsican: “A Riunione”
  • Corsican: “Isula di a Riunione”
  • Corsican: “Réunion”
  • Corsican: “Riunione”
  • Croatian: “Réunion”
  • Czech: “Réunion”
  • Danish: “Reunion”
  • Danish: “Réunion”
  • Dhivehi: “ރިޔޫނިއަން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Réunion”
  • Dutch: “RE”
  • Dutch: “REU”
  • Dutch: “Reunion”
  • Dutch: “Réunion”
  • Dzongkha: “རེ་ཡུ་ནི་ཡོན”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لا ريونيون”
  • Esperanto: “Reunio”
  • Esperanto: “Reunion”
  • Esperanto: “Réunion”
  • Estonian: “Réunion”
  • Ewe: “Réunion nutome”
  • Faroese: “Réunion”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Réunion”
  • Finnish: “Réunion”
  • French: “Ile Bourbon”
  • French: “Île Bourbon”
  • French: “Ile de la Réunion”
  • French: “Île de la Réunion”
  • French: “La Réunion”
  • French: “Région Réunion”
  • French: “Réunion”
  • Fulah: “Rewiñoo”
  • Gagauz: “Réunion”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Reunión”
  • Galician: “Reunión”
  • Galician: “Réunion”
  • Ganda: “Leyunyoni”
  • Georgian: “რეიუნიონი”
  • Georgian: “რეუნიონი”
  • German: “La Reunion”
  • German: “Reunion”
  • German: “Réunion”
  • Greek: “Λα Ρεϋνιόν”
  • Greek: “Ρεϊνιόν”
  • Greek: “Ρεϋνιόν”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Laréynyon”
  • Gujarati: “રિયુનિયન”
  • Gujarati: “રીયુનિયન”
  • Haitian: “La Reyinyon”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Liù-nì-vong-tó”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Réunion”
  • Hausa: “Rawuniyan”
  • Hebrew: “ראוניון”
  • Hindi: “रियूनियन”
  • Hindi: “रीयूनियन”
  • Hindi: “रेयूनियों”
  • Hungarian: “Réunion”
  • Icelandic: “Réunion”
  • Ido: “Reunion”
  • Igbo: “Réunion”
  • Iloko: “Réunion”
  • Inari Sami: “Réunion”
  • Indonesian: “Réunion”
  • Interlingua: “Reunion”
  • Interlingue: “Réunion”
  • Irish: “La Réunion”
  • Irish: “Réunion”
  • Italian: “Isola della Réunion”
  • Italian: “Isola della Riunione”
  • Italian: “Isola di Reunion”
  • Italian: “Isola di Riunione”
  • Italian: “Isole Reunion”
  • Italian: “La Réunion”
  • Italian: “La Riunione”
  • Italian: “REU (stato)”
  • Italian: “Reunion”
  • Italian: “Réunion”
  • Italian: “Riunione”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Reunioh”
  • Japanese: “レユニオン”
  • Japanese: “レユニオン島”
  • Javanese: “Réunion”
  • Kalaallisut: “Réunion”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಯೂನಿಯನ್”
  • Kannada: “ರೀಯೂನಿಯನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Reyunyon”
  • Kashmiri: “رِیوٗنِیَن”
  • Kazakh: “Реюньон”
  • Khmer: “រេអុយញ៉ុង”
  • Kikuyu: “Riyunioni”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Reyiniyo”
  • Kirghiz: “Реюньон департаменти”
  • Kirghiz: “Реюньон”
  • Kongo: “La Réunion”
  • Korean: “레위니옹 주”
  • Korean: “레위니옹”
  • Korean: “레위니옹주”
  • Korean: “리유니온”
  • Kurdish: “Réunion”
  • Lao: “ເຣອູນິຍົງ”
  • Latin: “Reunio”
  • Latvian: “Burbonu sala”
  • Latvian: “Reinjona”
  • Latvian: “Reinjonas sala”
  • Ligurian: “Réunion”
  • Limburgan: “Réunion”
  • Lingala: “Lenyo”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Reunion”
  • Lithuanian: “Reunjonas”
  • Lombard: “Réunion”
  • Low German: “Réunion”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Lenyo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement La Réunion”
  • Luxembourgish: “Réunion”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “La Réunion”
  • Macedonian: “Реинион”
  • Macedonian: “Реунион”
  • Malagasy: “La Réunion”
  • Malagasy: “Larenion”
  • Malay: “Reunion”
  • Malay: “Réunion”
  • Malayalam: “റീയൂണിയൻ”
  • Maltese: “La Reunion”
  • Maltese: “La Réunion”
  • Maltese: “Reunion”
  • Maltese: “Réunion”
  • Maori: “Réunion”
  • Marathi: “रियुनियन”
  • Marathi: “रेयूनियों”
  • Mazanderani: “ریونیون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Réunion”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Réunion”
  • Mingrelian: “რეიუნიონი”
  • Mongolian: “Реюнион”
  • Mongolian: “Реюньон”
  • Nepali: “रियुनियन”
  • Nepali: “रेयुनियोँ”
  • North Ndebele: “Réunion”
  • Northern Frisian: “Réunion”
  • Northern Luri: “رئونیون”
  • Northern Sami: “Réunion”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Île Bourbon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Reunion”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Réunion”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Réunion”
  • Norwegian: “Réunion”
  • Novial: “Reunion”
  • Obolo: “Reyuniọn̄”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “illa de la Reünion”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Reünion”
  • Oriya: “ରିୟୁନିଅନ୍”
  • Ossetian: “Реюньон”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਿਯੂਨੀਅਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੇਊਨੀਓਂ”
  • Papiamento: “Réunion”
  • Pedi: “Réunion”
  • Persian: “رئونیون”
  • Piemontese: “La Réunion”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Réunion Ailen”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Réunion”
  • Polish: “Reunion”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Reunião”
  • Portuguese: “Reunião”
  • Pushto: “ریونین”
  • Pushto: “رېيونين”
  • Quechua: “Reunión”
  • Quechua: “Riyunyun”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Réunion”
  • Romanian: “Reunion”
  • Romanian: “Réunion”
  • Romansh: “Réunion”
  • Rundi: “Amazinga ya Reyiniyo”
  • Russian: “Реюньон”
  • Sango: “Reinïon”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱤᱭᱩᱱᱤᱭᱳᱱ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱳᱝᱜᱟᱭᱜᱟᱶ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsula de sa Reunione”
  • Sardinian: “Reunione”
  • Scots: “Réunion”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Réunion”
  • Serbian: “Реинион”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Reunion”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Réunion”
  • Shan: “ရေႇၼီႇယၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Réunion”
  • Sicilian: “Riunioni”
  • Silesian: “Reunion”
  • Sindhi: “ري يونين”
  • Sinhala: “රීයුනියන්”
  • Sinhala: “රීයූනියන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Réunion”
  • Slovak: “Réunion”
  • Slovenian: “Burbonski otok”
  • Slovenian: “Mascarenov otok”
  • Slovenian: “Reunion”
  • Slovenian: “Réunion”
  • Somali: “Riyuuniyon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رئونیون”
  • Spanish: “La Reunión”
  • Spanish: “Reunion”
  • Spanish: “Reunión”
  • Sundanese: “Réunion”
  • Swahili: “Reunion”
  • Swahili: “Réunion”
  • Swedish: “Île Bourbon”
  • Swedish: “Réunion”
  • Swedish: “Santa Apollonia”
  • Swiss German: “Réunion”
  • Tagalog: “Réunion”
  • Tajik: “Реюнион”
  • Tamil: “ரீயூனியன்”
  • Tamil: “ரெயூனின்”
  • Tatar: “Реюньон”
  • Telugu: “రీయూనియన్”
  • Thai: “เรอูนียง”
  • Thai: “เรอูว์นียง”
  • Tigrinya: “ሪዩኒየን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lēunioni”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Réunion”
  • Tsonga: “Reunion”
  • Turkish: “Reunion”
  • Turkish: “Réunion”
  • Turkmen: “Reýunýon”
  • Uighur: “رېيۇنىيون”
  • Ukrainian: “Реюньйон”
  • Urdu: “ری یونین”
  • Urdu: “رے یونیوں”
  • Urdu: “غے یونیوں”
  • Uzbek: “Reyunion”
  • Venetian: “Réunion”
  • Vietnamese: “Réunion”
  • Volapük: “Reüneän”
  • Walloon: “Iye del Reyunion”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Réunion”
  • Welsh: “Réunion”
  • Western Frisian: “Réunion”
  • Western Mari: “Реюньон”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریونین”
  • Wolof: “Reeñoo”
  • Wolof: “Reiñõo”
  • Wu Chinese: “留尼汪”
  • Yiddish: “רעאוניאן”
  • Yoruba: “La Réunion”
  • Yoruba: “Réunion”
  • Yoruba: “Riuniyan”
  • Yue Chinese: “留尼旺”
  • Zeeuws: “Réunion”
  • Zulu: “i-Réunion”
  • Zulu: “IRiyunion”
  • “RE”
  • “REU”

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