Shefa

Shefa is a province of . It includes the Shepherd group of islands and the island of Efate, where the capital of Port-Vila is located.
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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 Shefa, right in the middle of the archipelago.

Epi is an island in Shefa Province, , at the north end of the . The island is 43 kilometres long northwest–southeast, and 18 kilometres wide, with an area of 444 square kilometres.

Shefa

Latitude
-17.5894° or 17° 35′ 22″ south
Longitude
168.3673° or 168° 22′ 2″ east
Population
63,500
Elevation
422 metres (1,385 feet)
Open location code
5VJCC968+6W
Geo­Names ID
2208267
Wiki­data ID
Q650617
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Shefa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: محافظة شيفا
  • Armenian: Շեֆա
  • Belarusian: Правінцыя Шэфа
  • Belarusian: Шэфа
  • Bengali: শেফা প্রদেশ
  • Bislama: Shefa
  • Bulgarian: Шефа
  • Catalan: Província de Shefa
  • Cebuano: Shefa Province
  • Chinese: Shefa Séng
  • Chinese: 謝法省
  • Chinese: 谢法省
  • Croatian: Shefa
  • Danish: Shefa Province
  • Dutch: Shefa Province
  • Dutch: Shefa
  • Esperanto: Ŝefa
  • Esperanto: Shefa
  • Estonian: Shefa provints
  • Finnish: Shefa
  • French: Shefa
  • French: Shéfa
  • Galician: Shefa
  • Georgian: შეფა
  • German: Shefa
  • German: VU-SEE
  • Greek: Σέφα
  • Gujarati: શેફા પ્રાંત
  • Hindi: शेफा प्रांत
  • Indonesian: Provinsi Shefa
  • Italian: Shefa
  • Japanese: シェファ州
  • Kannada: ಷೆಫಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ
  • Kinyarwanda: Intara ya Shefa
  • Kirghiz: Шефа
  • Korean: 셰파주
  • Latvian: Šefas province
  • Lithuanian: Šefa
  • Lithuanian: Shefa
  • Macedonian: Шефа
  • Malay: Shefa Province
  • Marathi: शेफा प्रांत
  • Min Nan Chinese: Shefa Séng
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Shefa
  • Norwegian: Shefa
  • Polish: Shefa
  • Portuguese: Shefa
  • Russian: Шефа
  • Serbo-Croatian: Shefa
  • Sinhala: ශේෆා පළාත
  • Slovenian: Shefa
  • Slovenian: VU-SEE
  • Spanish: Provincia de Shefa
  • Spanish: Shefa
  • Swedish: Shefa
  • Tamil: ஷெபிஆ மாகாணம்
  • Telugu: షెఫా ప్రావిన్స్
  • Telugu: షెఫా రాష్ట్రభాగం
  • Thai: จังหวัดเชฟา
  • Turkish: Shefa Province
  • Ukrainian: Провінція Шефа
  • Ukrainian: Шефа
  • Urdu: شفا صوبہ
  • Vietnamese: Tỉnh Shefa
  • Western Mari: Шефа

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Shefa”. Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.