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Tuvalu

Tuvalu is a group of low-lying islands and atolls in the South Pacific that form the fourth smallest country in the world. It is one of the most isolated and remote independent countries in the world.
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is the main island and capital of the island nation of Tuvalu. It consists of a very thin strip of land, in a roughly oval shape, with the relatively massive Te Namo Lagoon in the center.

Tuvalu

Latitude of center
-8.5321° or 8° 31′ 56″ south
Longitude of center
179.1321° or 179° 7′ 56″ east
Population
10,000
Area
26 km² (10 miles²)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (AUD)
Phone code
.tv
Internet domain
688
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424317372
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2110297
Wiki­data ID
Q672
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Tuvalu” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Тувалу”
  • Achinese: “Tuvalu”
  • Afrikaans: “Tuvalu”
  • Akan: “Tuvalu”
  • Albanian: “Tuvalu”
  • Amharic: “ቱቫሉ”
  • Amis: “Tuvalu”
  • Angika: “टुवालु”
  • Arabic: “توفالو”
  • Aragonese: “Tuvalu”
  • Armenian: “Թուվալու”
  • Armenian: “Տուվալու”
  • Arpitan: “Tuvalu”
  • Assamese: “টুভালু”
  • Asturian: “Tuvalu”
  • Atayal: “Tuvalu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tuvalu”
  • Balinese: “Tuvalu”
  • Bambara: “Tuvalu”
  • Bashkir: “Тувалу”
  • Basque: “Tuvalu”
  • Belarusian: “Тувалу”
  • Bengali: “টুভালু”
  • Betawi: “Tuwalu”
  • Bishnupriya: “টুভালু”
  • Bislama: “Tuvalu”
  • Bosnian: “Tuvalu”
  • Breton: “Tuvalu”
  • Bulgarian: “Тувалу”
  • Burmese: “တူဗားလူ”
  • Burmese: “တူဗားလူနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Tuvalu”
  • Cebuano: “Tuvalu”
  • Central Bikol: “Tubalu”
  • Central Kurdish: “تووڤالوو”
  • Chavacano: “Tuvalu”
  • Chechen: “Тувалу”
  • Cherokee: “ᏚᏩᎷ”
  • Cheyenne: “Tuvalu”
  • Chinese: “Tuvalu”
  • Chinese: “吐瓦魯”
  • Chinese: “图瓦卢”
  • Chinese: “圖瓦盧”
  • Chuvash: “Тувалу”
  • Cornish: “Tuvalu”
  • Corsican: “Tuvalu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tuvalu”
  • Croatian: “Tuvalu”
  • Czech: “Tuvalu”
  • Dagbani: “Tuvalu”
  • Danish: “Tuvalu”
  • Dhivehi: “ތުވާލޫ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tuvalu”
  • Dotyali: “टुभालु”
  • Dutch: “Ellice-eilanden”
  • Dutch: “TUV”
  • Dutch: “Tuvalu”
  • Dutch: “TV”
  • Dzongkha: “ཏུ་ཝ་ལུ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тувалу”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “توڤالو”
  • Esperanto: “Tuvalo”
  • Esperanto: “TV”
  • Estonian: “Tuvalu”
  • Ewe: “Tuvalu nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Tuvalu”
  • Faroese: “Tuvalu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tuvalu”
  • Finnish: “Tuvalu”
  • French: “État des Tuvalu”
  • French: “les Tuvalu”
  • French: “Tuvalu”
  • French: “TV”
  • Friulian: “Tuvalu”
  • Fulah: “Tuwalu”
  • Fulah: “Tuwaluu”
  • Gagauz: “Tuvalu”
  • Galician: “Tuvalu”
  • Ganda: “Tuvalu”
  • Georgian: “ტუვალუ”
  • German: “Tuvalu”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tuvalu”
  • Gilaki: “تۊوالۊ”
  • Goan Konkani: “Tuvalu”
  • Goan Konkani: “टुवालु”
  • Greek: “Τουβαλού”
  • Guarani: “Tuválu”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Tuvalu”
  • Gujarati: “ટુવાલુ”
  • Gujarati: “તુવાલુ”
  • Haitian: “Touvalou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tuvalu”
  • Hausa: “Tubalu”
  • Hausa: “Tuvalu”
  • Hebrew: “טובאלו”
  • Hebrew: “טובלו”
  • Hindi: “तुवालु”
  • Hindi: “तुवालू”
  • Hungarian: “Tuvalu”
  • Icelandic: “Túvalú”
  • Icelandic: “Túvalúeyjar”
  • Ido: “Tuvalu”
  • Igbo: “Tuvalu”
  • Iloko: “Tuvalu”
  • Inari Sami: “Tuvalu”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Ellice”
  • Indonesian: “Tuvalu”
  • Interlingua: “Tuvalu”
  • Interlingue: “Tuvalu”
  • Irish: “Tuvalu”
  • Irish: “Túvalú”
  • Italian: “Ellice Islands”
  • Italian: “Isole Ellice”
  • Italian: “Tuvalu”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tuvalu”
  • Japanese: “ツバル”
  • Javanese: “Tuvalu”
  • Kabyle: “Tuvalu”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tuvalu”
  • Kalmyk: “Тувалмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಟುವಾಲು”
  • Kannada: “ತುವಾಲು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tuvalu”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Тувалу”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Элис айрымканла”
  • Kashmiri: “تُوالوٗ”
  • Kashmiri: “توٗوالوٗ”
  • Kashmiri: “टुवालु”
  • Kazakh: “Туалу”
  • Kazakh: “Тувалу”
  • Khmer: “ទូវ៉ាលូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Tuvalu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tuvalu”
  • Kirghiz: “Тувалу”
  • Kölsch: “Tuvalu”
  • Korean: “투발루”
  • Kotava: “Tuvalua”
  • Kurdish: “Tûvalû”
  • Kurdish: “تووڤالوو”
  • Ladin: “Tuvalu”
  • Ladino: “Tuvalu”
  • Lao: “ຕູວາລູ”
  • Latin: “Tuvalu”
  • Latvian: “Tuvalu”
  • Lezghian: “Тувалу”
  • Ligurian: “Tuvalu”
  • Limburgan: “Tuvalu”
  • Lingala: “Tuvalu”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tuvalu”
  • Literary Chinese: “吐瓦魯”
  • Lithuanian: “Tuvalu”
  • Livvi: “Tuvalu”
  • Lombard: “Tuvalu”
  • Low German: “Tuvalu”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tuvalu”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Tuvalu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tuvalu”
  • Macedonian: “Тувалу”
  • Malagasy: “Tovalo”
  • Malagasy: “Tovalò”
  • Malay: “Tuvalu”
  • Malayalam: “ടുവാലു”
  • Malayalam: “തുവാലു”
  • Maltese: “Tuvalu”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯨꯚꯥꯂꯨ”
  • Manx: “Tuvalu”
  • Maori: “Tūwaru”
  • Marathi: “टुवालु”
  • Marathi: “तुवालू”
  • Mazanderani: “تووالو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tuvalu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tuvalu”
  • Minangkabau: “Tuvalu”
  • Mingrelian: “ტუვალუ”
  • Mongolian: “Тувалу”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “توڤالو”
  • Nauru: “Tubaru”
  • Navajo: “Tʼoobááloo”
  • Nepali: “टुभालु”
  • Nepali: “तुभालु”
  • Newari: “तुभालु”
  • North Ndebele: “Thuvalu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tuwaalu”
  • Northern Sami: “Tuvalu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuvalu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tuvalu”
  • Norwegian: “Tuvalu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tuvalu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tufalu”
  • Oriya: “ଟୁଭାଲୋ”
  • Oriya: “ତୁଭାଲୁ”
  • Oromo: “Tuvalu”
  • Ossetian: “Тувалу”
  • Paiwan: “TUV”
  • Paiwan: “Tuvalu”
  • Paiwan: “tv”
  • Pali: “टुवालु”
  • Pampanga: “Tuvalu”
  • Panjabi: “ਟੁਵਾਲੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੁਵਾਲੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Tuvalu”
  • Persian: “توالو”
  • Persian: “تووالو”
  • Piemontese: “Tuvalu”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tuwaluu”
  • Polish: “Tuvalu”
  • Polish: “Tuwalu”
  • Portuguese: “Tuvalu”
  • Pushto: “توالیو”
  • Pushto: “تووالو”
  • Quechua: “Tuvalu”
  • Quechua: “Tuwalu”
  • Rakhine: “တူဗားလူနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Tuvalu”
  • Romansh: “Tuvalu”
  • Rundi: “Tuvalu”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тувалу”
  • Russian: “Острова Эллис”
  • Russian: “острова Эллиса”
  • Russian: “Тувалу”
  • Sakizaya: “Tuvalu”
  • Samoan: “Tuvalu”
  • Samogitian: “Tuvalu”
  • Sango: “Tüvalü”
  • Sanskrit: “टुवालु”
  • Sardinian: “Tuvalu”
  • Scots: “Tuvalu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tubhalu”
  • Serbian: “Тувалу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tuvalu”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းထူးဝႃႇလူႇ”
  • Shona: “Tuvalu”
  • Sicilian: “Tuvalu”
  • Silesian: “Tuvalu”
  • Sindhi: “توالو”
  • Sindhi: “ٽوالو”
  • Sinhala: “ටුවාලු”
  • Sinhala: “ටුවාලූ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tuvalu”
  • Slovak: “Tuvalu”
  • Slovenian: “Tuvalu”
  • Somali: “Tufaalu”
  • Somali: “Tuvalu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تووالو”
  • Spanish: “Islas Ellice”
  • Spanish: “Tuvalu”
  • Sundanese: “Tuvalu”
  • Swahili: “Tuvalu”
  • Swedish: “Tuvalu”
  • Swiss German: “Tuvalu”
  • Tagalog: “Tuvalu”
  • Tahitian: “Tuvaru”
  • Tajik: “Тувалу”
  • Tamil: “துவாலு”
  • Tamil: “துவாலூ”
  • Tamil: “தூவலு”
  • Taroko: “Tuvalu”
  • Tatar: “Тувалу”
  • Telugu: “టువాలు”
  • Telugu: “తువాలు”
  • Thai: “ตูวาลู”
  • Thai: “ประเทศตูวาลู”
  • Tibetan: “ཏུ་ཝ་ལུ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཐུ་ཝ་ལུ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቱቫሉ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tuvalu”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tūvalu”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tuvalu”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “توڥالو”
  • Turkish: “Tuvalu”
  • Turkmen: “Tuwalu”
  • Tuvalu: “Tuvalu”
  • Twi: “Tuvalu”
  • Udmurt: “Тувалу”
  • Uighur: “Tuwalu”
  • Uighur: “تۇۋالۇ”
  • Ukrainian: “Тувалу”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tuvalu”
  • Urdu: “تووالو”
  • Urdu: “ٹووالو”
  • Uzbek: “Tuvalu”
  • Venetian: “Tuvalu”
  • Venetian: “Tuvału”
  • Veps: “Tuvalu”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Ellice”
  • Vietnamese: “Tuvalu”
  • Volapük: “Tuvaluäns”
  • Võro: “Tuvalu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tuvalu”
  • Welsh: “Tuvalu”
  • Welsh: “Twfalw”
  • Western Frisian: “Tuvalu”
  • Western Frisian: “Tûvalû”
  • Western Mari: “Тувалу”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹووالو”
  • Wolof: “Tuvalu”
  • Wolof: “Tuwalo”
  • Wu Chinese: “圖瓦盧”
  • Xhosa: “Tuvalu”
  • Yakut: “Тувалу”
  • Yiddish: “טואוואַלו”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Tufalu”
  • Yoruba: “Tufalu”
  • Yue Chinese: “圖瓦盧”
  • Zeeuws: “Tuvalu”
  • Zhuang: “Tuvalu”
  • Zulu: “i-Tuvalu”
  • “ma Tuwalu”
  • “Tuvalu”

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