Tafea

Tafea is the southernmost of the six provinces of . The name is an acronym for the five main islands that make up the province: Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango and Aniwa.
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is a rural island in the southernmost island of Vanuatu, less than 70 km south-south-east of Tanna. is a volcanic island, made up of two volcanic cones, Mount Indero and Nanawaréz.

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is a small island in the southernmost province of Tafea, . As a coral island, it rises a mere 42 m above sea level. In the northwest is Itcharo lagoon, which is open to the sea. The nearest large island is , about 24 km to the southwest.

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is the largest town on the island of in . It has a population of 1,473. It is located on the west coast of the island near the administrative capital of and serves as a major port of entry.

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is an in southern . is the most populous island of Tafea Province, and the third most populous in the country. It is home to five indigenous languages, which also rank among the most widely spoken in the whole archipelago, ranging from 3,500 to 11,500 speakers.

Tafea

Latitude of center
-19.5095° or 19° 30′ 34″ south
Longitude of center
169.3485° or 169° 20′ 55″ east
Population
37,100
Elevation
455 metres (1,493 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2134739
Wiki­data ID
Q576417
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Mari—“Tafea” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ታፌያ”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة تافيا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tafea”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Тафеа”
  • Belarusian: “Тафеа”
  • Bengali: “টাফেয়া প্রদেশ”
  • Bislama: “Tafea”
  • Bulgarian: “Тафеа”
  • Catalan: “Taféa”
  • Cebuano: “Tafea Province”
  • Chinese: “Tafea Séng”
  • Chinese: “塔菲亚省”
  • Croatian: “Tafea”
  • Danish: “Tafea Province”
  • Danish: “Tafea”
  • Dutch: “Tafea”
  • Esperanto: “Tafea”
  • Finnish: “Tafea”
  • French: “Tafea”
  • French: “Taféa”
  • Galician: “Tafea”
  • Georgian: “ტაფეა”
  • German: “Tafea Province”
  • German: “Tafea”
  • Greek: “Ταφέα”
  • Gujarati: “ટાફિયા પ્રાંત”
  • Hausa: “Tafea”
  • Hindi: “टेफिया प्रांत”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Tafea”
  • Italian: “Tafea”
  • Japanese: “タフェア州”
  • Javanese: “Tafea”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾಫಿಯ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Тафеа”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Intara ya Tafea”
  • Kirghiz: “Тафеа”
  • Korean: “타페아주”
  • Latvian: “Tafea province”
  • Latvian: “Tafea”
  • Lithuanian: “Tafea”
  • Macedonian: “Тафеа”
  • Malay: “Tafea Province”
  • Marathi: “टफिया प्रांत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tafea Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tafea”
  • Norwegian: “Tafea”
  • Oromo: “Tafea”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਫਿਆ”
  • Persian: “تافیا”
  • Polish: “Tafea”
  • Portuguese: “Tafea”
  • Pushto: “تافیا”
  • Russian: “Тафеа”
  • Sinhala: “ටෆියා පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Tafea”
  • Somali: “Tafea”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Tafea”
  • Spanish: “Tafea”
  • Swahili: “Tafea”
  • Swedish: “Tafea”
  • Tajik: “Тафеа”
  • Tamil: “டாபியா மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Тафеа”
  • Telugu: “టాఫియా ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “టాఫియా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดทาเฟีย”
  • Turkish: “Tafea Province”
  • Ukrainian: “Тафеа”
  • Urdu: “تافیا صوبہ”
  • Urdu: “ٹافیا صوبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Tafea”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Tafea”
  • Western Mari: “Тафеа”

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