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!- Type: atoll with 46,000 residents
- Description: atoll in the central Pacific Ocean and the capital of Kiribati
- Also known as: “Tarawa Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bikeman Island.
Bikeman Island
Island
Bikeman Island is a submerged islet about a half-hour's canoe ride northeast of Betio, Kiribati. Due to changing currents and the construction of a causeway between Betio and Bairiki, Bikeman has been submerged since the early 1990s.
Tarawa
- Categories: town, human settlement, and reef island
- Location: Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Tarawa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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: “Tarawa”
- Dutch: “Tarawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاراوا”
- Estonian: “Tarawa”
- Faroese: “Tarawa”
- Finnish: “Tarawa”
- French: “Tarawa”
- Galician: “Atol Tarawa”
- Georgian: “ტარავა”
- German: “Cook Island”
- German: “Tarawa”
- German: “Tarowa”
- Greek: “Ταράουα”
- Gujarati: “તારાવા”
- Haitian: “Tarawa”
- Hebrew: “טאראווה”
- Hindi: “टारावा”
- Icelandic: “Tarawa”
- Ido: “Tarawa”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Tarawa”
- Indonesian: “Tarawa”
- Italian: “Tarawa”
- Japanese: “タラワ”
- Kannada: “ತರವ”
- 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”
- Pushto: “تاراوا”
- Russian: “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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