Manuʻa Islands
Fitiuta County
Village of Maia

Ta’u

Taʻū is the largest inhabited island in the in and the easternmost volcanic island of the Samoan Islands. In the early 19th century, the island was sometimes called Opoun.
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  • Type: Village with 790 residents
  • Description: island of American Samoa
  • Also known as: “Manua”, “Manua Island”, “Opoun Island”, “Ta‘ū”, “Ta‘ū Island”, “Ta’u Island”, “Ta`ü”, “Ta`u Island”, “Taʻū”, “Tau”, “Tau Island”, and “Tau, American Samoa”
Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tau Airport and Tui Manu’a Graves Monument.

Ruins
was a privately owned, private-use located 1.6 kilometers southeast of the village of Ta‘ū on the island of Ta‘ū in , an unincorporated territory of the .

Protected area
The Tui Manu'a Graves Monument is a funerary marker and grave site on the island Ta'u, the largest island of the Manu'a group in . It is located northwest of the junction of Ta'u Village and Ta'u Island Roads on the west side of the island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Faleasao.

Village
Faleāsao is a in . Administratively, it is located in Faleāsao County, , on the northern shore of Taʻū Island. It is divided into two sub-villages: Siʻuaʻi, consisting of the eastern half; and Tufulele, consisting of the western half.

Ta’u

Latitude
-14.2335° or 14° 14′ 1″ south
Longitude
-169.5145° or 169° 30′ 52″ west
Population
790
Elevation
2,572 feet (784 metres)
Open location code
52QGQF8P+H5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3276421424
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5881162
Wiki­data ID
Q21847427
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Satellite Map

Discover Ta’u from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ta’u” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تاو (جزيرة)”
  • Arabic: “تاو”
  • Asturian: “Ta‘ū”
  • Asturian: “Taʻu”
  • Basque: “Ta’ū”
  • Belarusian: “Таў”
  • Catalan: “Ta‘ū”
  • Catalan: “Ta’u”
  • Cebuano: “Ta‘ū Island”
  • Cebuano: “Ta‘ū”
  • Chinese: “Ta’ū島”
  • Chinese: “塔乌岛”
  • Chinese: “塔烏島”
  • Croatian: “Ta‘ū”
  • Croatian: “Taʻū”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاو”
  • French: “Ta‘ū”
  • Galician: “Ta’u”
  • Georgian: “ტაუ”
  • German: “Taʻū”
  • Hebrew: “טאו”
  • Indonesian: “Ta‘ū”
  • Indonesian: “Ta’ū”
  • Italian: “Ta‘ū”
  • Italian: “Taʻu”
  • Japanese: “タウ島”
  • Lithuanian: “Tau”
  • Polish: “Tau”
  • Russian: “Тау”
  • Samoan: “Ta’ū”
  • Samoan: “Taʻū”
  • Sinhala: “ටාʻඋ, ඇමරිකානු සැමෝවා”
  • Slovak: “Ta‘ū”
  • Slovak: “Ta’u”
  • Slovenian: “Taʻū”
  • Spanish: “Ta‘ū”
  • Spanish: “Ta’u”
  • Swedish: “Ta‘ū Island”
  • Swedish: “Ta‘ū”
  • Swedish: “Tau, Amerikanska Samoa”
  • Swedish: “Tau”
  • Turkish: “Taʻū”
  • Ukrainian: “Тау”
  • Vietnamese: “Taʻū”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ta’u”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.