Tanna
Tanna is an island in southern Vanuatu. Tanna 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.Essential Destinations
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Tanna
- Type: Island with 28,800 residents
- Description: island of Vanuatu
- Also known as: “Aipere”, “Ipari”, “Tanna Island”, and “Танна (остров)”
- Category: volcanic island
- Location: Tafea, Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude of center
-19.5293° or 19° 31′ 46″ south
Longitude of center
169.3857° or 169° 23′ 9″ east
Population
28,800
Elevation
1,084 metres (3,556 feet)
IATA airport code
TAH
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Mari—“Tanna” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Tanna”
- Basque: “Tanna (uhartea)”
- Basque: “Tanna”
- Bislama: “Tanna aeland”
- Bulgarian: “Тана”
- Catalan: “Tanna”
- Cebuano: “Tanna”
- Chinese: “塔納島”
- Czech: “Tanna”
- Danish: “Tanna”
- Dutch: “Tanna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تانا”
- Esperanto: “Tanna”
- Estonian: “Tanna saar”
- Estonian: “Tanna”
- Finnish: “Tanna”
- French: “Île de Tanna”
- French: “Tanna”
- Galician: “Tanna”
- Georgian: “ტანა”
- German: “Tanna”
- Greek: “Τάνα”
- Hebrew: “טאנה”
- Indonesian: “Tanna”
- Italian: “Tanna”
- Japanese: “タンナ島”
- Korean: “탄나 섬”
- Korean: “탄나섬”
- Lithuanian: “Tana”
- Macedonian: “Тана (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Тана”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanna”
- Persian: “تانا”
- Polish: “Tanna”
- Portuguese: “Tana”
- Portuguese: “Tanna”
- Russian: “Танна”
- Serbian: “Тана”
- Slovenian: “Tanna”
- Spanish: “Tanna”
- Swahili: “Tanna”
- Thai: “เกาะตันนา”
- Ukrainian: “Танна”
- Vietnamese: “Tanna”
- Western Mari: “Танна”
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