Tarawa
Tarawa is an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, and the location of the capital of Kiribati. It is home to about 70,000 people, more than half of the country's population!| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 40,300 residents
- Description: atoll in the central Pacific Ocean and the capital of Kiribati
- Also known as: “South Tarawa” and “Tarawa Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bairiki National Stadium and Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Bairiki National Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Flexmaen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bairiki National Stadium is located in Bairiki, Kiribati. It is the national stadium and the home of Kiribati's men's and women's national football teams. The official name of the stadium is Reuben K. Uatioa Stadium. The stadium's capacity is around 2,500.
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Church
Photo: Arorae, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sacred Heart Cathedral is a religious building of the Catholic church that is located in South Tarawa on the atoll of Tarawa part of the island nation of Kiribati in Oceania.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bairiki and Betio.
Bairiki
Town
Bairiki is a town located in South Tarawa, Kiribati. It is crucial to the country's political and administrative structure as several governmental organizations and diplomatic missions are situated there.
Betio
Town
Photo: Barbe-sauvage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Betio is the name of both an island and a township within the Tarawa Atoll, part of the Republic of Kiribati. Betio is the largest township of Kiribati's capital city, South Tarawa, and it is also the country's primary port.
Teaoraereke
Village
Photo: Arorae, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Teaoraereke is a town and settlement in South Tarawa of Kiribati. It is part of a nearly continuous chain of settlements along the islands of South Tarawa, which are now linked by causeways, between Bairiki and Buota.
Tarawa
- Categories: atoll, town, and human settlement
- Location: Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zulu—“Tarawa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Tarawa”
- Arabic: “تاراوا”
- Armenian: “Տարավա”
- Asturian: “Tarawa”
- Azerbaijani: “Tarava”
- Azerbaijani: “Tarawa”
- Basque: “Tarawa”
- Belarusian: “Атол Тарава”
- Belarusian: “Тарава”
- Bengali: “তারাওয়া”
- Bosnian: “Tarawa”
- Bulgarian: “Тарауа”
- Catalan: “Tarawa”
- Cebuano: “Tarawa Island”
- Chinese: “塔拉瓦”
- Chinese: “塔拉瓦环礁”
- Chinese: “塔拉瓦環礁”
- Chinese: “達維華”
- Croatian: “Tarawa”
- Danish: “South Tarawa”
- Danish: “Tarawa”
- Dutch: “Tarawa”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Tarawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاراوا”
- Estonian: “Tarawa”
- Faroese: “Tarawa”
- Finnish: “South Tarawa”
- Finnish: “Tarawa”
- French: “Tarawa-Sud”
- French: “Tarawa”
- Galician: “Atol Tarawa”
- Georgian: “ტარავა”
- German: “Cook Island”
- German: “Süd-Tarawa”
- German: “Tarawa”
- German: “Tarowa”
- Greek: “Ταράουα”
- Gujarati: “તારાવા”
- Haitian: “Tarawa”
- Hebrew: “דרום טאראווה”
- Hebrew: “טאראווה”
- Hindi: “टारावा”
- Icelandic: “Tarawa”
- Ido: “Tarawa”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Tarawa”
- Indonesian: “Tarawa”
- Italian: “Tarawa Sud”
- Italian: “Tarawa”
- Japanese: “タラワ”
- Kannada: “ತರವ”
- Korean: “남타라와”
- Korean: “사우스타라와”
- Korean: “타라와”
- Latin: “Tarava”
- Latvian: “Tarava”
- Ligurian: “Tarawa-Sud”
- Lithuanian: “Tarava”
- Macedonian: “Тарава”
- Malagasy: “Tarawa”
- Malay: “Tarawa”
- Malayalam: “ടറാവ”
- Mongolian: “Тарава”
- Nepali: “तारावा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarawa”
- Norwegian: “Tarawa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tarawa”
- Persian: “تاراوا”
- Polish: “Tarawa”
- Portuguese: “Taraua”
- Portuguese: “Tarawa do Sul”
- Portuguese: “Tarawa”
- Pushto: “تاراوا”
- Romanian: “South Tarawa”
- Russian: “Тарава”
- Russian: “Южная Тарава”
- Sindhi: “تراوا”
- Sinhala: “ටරාවා”
- Slovak: “Atol Tarawa”
- Slovak: “Tarawa”
- Slovenian: “Tarava”
- Slovenian: “Tarawa”
- Spanish: “Tarawa”
- Swedish: “Tarawa”
- Tagalog: “Karang ng Tarawa”
- Tahitian: “Tarawa”
- Tajik: “Tarawa”
- Tajik: “Тарава”
- Tamil: “டரவா”
- Tamil: “தரவா”
- Telugu: “టరావా”
- Thai: “ตาราวา”
- Tibetan: “ཐ་ར་ཝ།”
- Turkish: “Tarawa”
- Turkmen: “Tarawa”
- Ukrainian: “Тарава”
- Urdu: “تاراوا”
- Uzbek: “Tarawa”
- Vietnamese: “Tarawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tarawa”
- Wu Chinese: “塔拉瓦环礁”
- Yue Chinese: “達維華”
- Zulu: “i-Tarawa”
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