Shefa
Shefa is a province of Vanuatu. It includes the Shepherd group of islands and the island of Efate, where the capital of Port-Vila is located.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Port Vila and Epi Island.
Port Vila
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Port Vila is the capital of Vanuatu. Vanuatu's largest town, with some 50,000 people, it lies on the south coast of the island of Efate in the province of Shefa, right in the middle of the archipelago.
Epi Island
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Epi is an island in Shefa Province, Vanuatu, at the north end of the Shepherd Islands. The island is 43 kilometres long northwest–southeast, and 18 kilometres wide, with an area of 444 square kilometres.
Shefa
- Type: province of Vanuatu with 63,500 residents
- Description: province of Vanuatu
- Also known as: “Shefa Province”
- Location: Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania
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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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