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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lenakel and White Grass.
Lenakel
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Lenakel is the largest town on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. It has a population of 1,473. It is located on the west coast of the island near the administrative capital of Isangel and serves as a major port of entry.
White Sands
Whitesands or White Sands is a village on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. Located on the southeast side of the island near Sulphur Bay, the area is a center of the indigenous Whitesands language and the John Frum cargo cult. There is a store.Destinations to Discover
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Lowanatom
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Lowanatom is on Tanna Island, which is in the Tafea District of Vanuatu.
Tanna
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Satellite Map
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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 (остров)”
- Russian: “Танна”
- Serbian: “Тана”
- Spanish: “Tanna”
- Swahili: “Tanna”
- Thai: “เกาะตันนา”
- Ukrainian: “Танна”
- Vietnamese: “Tanna”
- Western Mari: “Танна”
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