Tarawa

Tarawa is an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, and the location of the capital of . It is home to about 70,000 people, more than half of the country's population!
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  • Type: atoll with 46,000 residents
  • Description: atoll in the central Pacific Ocean and the capital of Kiribati
  • Also known as: “Cook Island”, “Knox Island”, “Tarowa”, and “塔拉瓦”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bikeman Island.

Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a submerged islet about a half-hour's canoe ride northeast of , .

Tarawa

Latitude
1.419° or 1° 25′ 8″ north
Longitude
172.984° or 172° 59′ 2″ east
Population
46,000
Open location code
6VHJCX9M+HJ
Geo­Names ID
7521611
Wiki­data ID
Q2486
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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: “塔拉瓦环礁”
  • Chinese: “塔拉瓦環礁”
  • Croatian: “Tarawa”
  • Danish: “Tarawa”
  • Dutch: “Tarawa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاراوا”
  • Estonian: “Tarawa”
  • Faroese: “Tarawa”
  • Finnish: “Tarawa”
  • French: “Tarawa”
  • Galician: “atol Tarawa”
  • Galician: “Atol Tarawa”
  • Georgian: “ტარავა”
  • German: “Tarawa”
  • 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”
  • Western Armenian: “Թարաուա”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔拉瓦环礁”
  • Yue Chinese: “達維華”
  • Zulu: “i-Tarawa”

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