Tuamotu Islands

The Tuamotu Archipelago or the Tuamotu Islands are a chain of just under 80 and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean. They constitute the largest chain of atolls in the world, extending over an area roughly the size of Western Europe.
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, Havaiki-te-araro, Havai'i or Farea is an atoll in the west of the Tuamotu group in . It is the second largest of the Tuamotu atolls.

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, or Paeua, is a coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, part of . It is one of the northernmost of the Tuamotus, located in the subgroup.

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or Porutu-kai is a coral atoll in the group, part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in . It is included in the commune of .

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is an island in the Tuamotu archipelago in . It is the second largest atoll in the world.

Tuamotu Islands

  • Type: Archipelago
  • Description: archipelago in French Polynesia
  • Also known as: “Archipel Dangereux”, “Archipel des Pomotou”, “Îles Basses”, “Iles Lointaines”, “Iles Pomotou”, “Îles Touamotou”, “Low Archipelago”, “Niedrige Inseln”, “Ostrová Nízmennie”, “Ostrova Nizmennyye”, “Ostrová Rossiyán”, “Quirós Tierras de”, “Tuamotu”, “Tuamotu Archipelago”, “Tuamotu Group”, and “Tuamotus”
  • Historically known as: “Paumotu Islands”
  • Category: locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
-18.7963° or 18° 47′ 47″ south
Longitude of center
-141.584° or 141° 35′ 2″ west
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4069304166
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
4033263
Wiki­data ID
Q183963
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tuamotu Islands” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tuamotu-argipel”
  • Arabic: “جزر تواموتو”
  • Armenian: “Տաումոտու”
  • Armenian: “Տուամոտու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tuamotu”
  • Basque: “Tuamotu”
  • Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Туамоту”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Туамоту”
  • Belarusian: “Туамоту”
  • Bosnian: “Tuamotu”
  • Bulgarian: “Туамоту”
  • Catalan: “Tuamotu”
  • Cebuano: “Archipel des Tuamotu”
  • Chinese: “Tuamotu Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “低群島”
  • Chinese: “图阿莫图群岛”
  • Chinese: “土亞莫土群島”
  • Chinese: “土阿莫土群岛”
  • Chinese: “土阿莫土群島”
  • Chuvash: “Туамоту”
  • Croatian: “Tuamotu”
  • Czech: “Tuamotu”
  • Danish: “Tuamoto”
  • Danish: “Tuamotu”
  • Dutch: “Tuamotu-eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Tuamotu”
  • Dutch: “Tuamotueilanden”
  • Esperanto: “Tuamotuoj”
  • Estonian: “Tuamotu saared”
  • Estonian: “Tuamotu saarestik”
  • Estonian: “Tuamotu”
  • Finnish: “Tuamotu-saaret”
  • Finnish: “Tuamotu”
  • Finnish: “Tuamotusaaret”
  • French: “Archipel de Tuamotu”
  • French: “Archipel des Touamotou”
  • French: “Archipel des Tuamotou”
  • French: “Îles Tuamotu-Gambier”
  • French: “îles Tuamotu”
  • French: “Îles Tuamotu”
  • French: “Touamotou”
  • French: “Tuamotou”
  • French: “Tuamotu”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago Tuamotu”
  • Galician: “Tuamotu”
  • Georgian: “ტუამოტუს კუნძულები”
  • German: “Paumotuinseln”
  • German: “Tuamotu-Archipel”
  • German: “Tuamotu-Inseln”
  • German: “Tuamotu”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Τουαμότου”
  • Greek: “Τουαμότου Αρχιπέλαγος”
  • Hebrew: “איי טואמוטו”
  • Hebrew: “ארכיפלג טואמוטו”
  • Hungarian: “Tuamotu-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Túamótúeyjar”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Tuamotu”
  • Italian: “Isole Tuamotu”
  • Italian: “Tuamotu”
  • Japanese: “ツアモツ諸島”
  • Japanese: “トゥアモトゥ諸島”
  • Kazakh: “Twamotw”
  • Kazakh: “Туамоту”
  • Kazakh: “ТУАМОТУ”
  • Kazakh: “تۋاموتۋ”
  • Kirghiz: “Туамоту”
  • Korean: “투아모투 제도”
  • Latin: “Archipelagus Tuamotu”
  • Latin: “Insulae Tuamotu”
  • Latin: “Tuamotu”
  • Latvian: “Tuamotu arhipelāgs”
  • Latvian: “Tuamotu salas”
  • Latvian: “Tuamotu”
  • Lithuanian: “Tuamotu salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Tuamotu”
  • Lithuanian: “Tuamotus”
  • Macedonian: “Туамоту”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Tuamotu”
  • Malayalam: “Tuamotus”
  • Malayalam: “ടൂവമോട്ടു ദ്വീപസമൂഹം”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tuamotu Kûn-tó”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tuamotu Eilunen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuamotu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuamotuøyene”
  • Norwegian: “Tuamotu”
  • Persian: “توآموتو”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر توآموت”
  • Polish: “Tuamotu”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Tuamotu”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Tuamotu”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Tuamotu”
  • Portuguese: “Tuamotu”
  • Romanian: “Arhipelagul Tuamotu”
  • Romanian: “Arhipeleagul Tuamotu”
  • Russian: “Архипелаг Туамоту”
  • Russian: “Острова Россиян”
  • Russian: “Памоту”
  • Russian: “Паумоту”
  • Russian: “Помоту”
  • Russian: “Россиян острова”
  • Russian: “Туамоту”
  • Scots: “Tuamotus”
  • Serbian: “Arhipelag Tuamotu”
  • Serbian: “Архипелаг Туамоту”
  • Serbian: “Туамоту”
  • Slovak: “Nízke ostrovy”
  • Slovak: “Tuamotu”
  • Slovenian: “Nevarni otoki”
  • Slovenian: “Nizki otoki”
  • Slovenian: “otočje Tuamotu”
  • Slovenian: “Tuamotu”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago Tuamotu”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago Tuamotu”
  • Spanish: “Islas Tuamotu”
  • Spanish: “Paumotu”
  • Spanish: “Tuamotu”
  • Spanish: “Tuamotú”
  • Spanish: “Tuamotus”
  • Swahili: “Tuamotu”
  • Swedish: “Tuamotuöarna”
  • Swiss German: “Tuamotu-Archipel”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Tuamotu”
  • Tahitian: “Tūāmotu mā”
  • Tamil: “தூமோடுசு”
  • Tatar: “Туамоту утраулары”
  • Thai: “Tuamotu Archipelago”
  • Thai: “Tuamotus”
  • Thai: “กลุ่มเกาะตูอาโมตู”
  • Thai: “ตูอาโมตัส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tuamotu-Archipel”
  • Ukrainian: “Туамоту”
  • Urdu: “جزائر تواموتو”
  • Uzbek: “Tuamotu”
  • Vietnamese: “Tuamotu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Tuamotu”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Tuamotu”
  • Western Frisian: “Tuamotu-eilannen”
  • Western Frisian: “Tûamotû-eilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Туамоту”
  • Wu Chinese: “土阿莫土群岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “土阿莫土群島”

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