Vanuatu

Vanuatu is an archipelago nation in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The archipelago more than 80 islands includes deserted sand beaches, remote beauty, tribal communities and world-class deep-sea diving.
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is the capital of Vanuatu. Vanuatu's largest town, with some 50,000 people, it lies on the south coast of the island of in the province of , right in the middle of the archipelago.

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, originally named Sandwich Island and also known as Île Vate or just Vate, is an in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the in Vanuatu, and the capital city, , is located on the island.

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, usually just called Santo, is the largest island in the nation and archipelago of Vanuatu, with an area of 3,955.5 km2, although , on which the capital city of is located, has a larger population.

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is a province of Vanuatu. It includes the Shepherd group of islands and the island of Efate, where the capital of Port-Vila is located.

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is the southernmost of the six provinces of Vanuatu. The name is an acronym for the five main islands that make up the province: Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango and Aniwa.

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is a province of Vanuatu in the central part of the archipelago. Its name combines the first syllables of its three principal islands: Malakula, Ambrym and Paama.

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is the northernmost and least populous province of Vanuatu. It consists of the Banks Islands and the . It has an area of 882 square kilometres.

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is a province of Vanuatu. It includes the central-eastern islands of Pentecost, Ambae, and Maewo.
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Vanuatu

  • Type: Country with 215,000 residents
  • Description: island country in Oceania
  • Also known as: “Fanuatīega seo Cynewise”, “la République du Vanuatu”, “Repubblika ta’ Vanuatu”, “Republic of Vanuatu”, “República de Vanuatu”, “Republiek Vanuatu”, “Republik Vanuatu”, “Republika Vanuatu”, “Republiken Vanuatu”, “Republikken Vanuatu”, “Respubliko Vanuatuo”, “Tân Đảo”, “Új-Hebridák”, “van”, “VAN”, “Vanuatská republika”, “Vanuatu dásseváldi”, “Vanuatu tääʹssväʹldd”, “Vanuatu täsiväldi”, “Vanuatu Vabariik”, “Vanuatui Köztársaság”, “Vanuatun tasavalta”, “Vanuatun Tazovaldkund”, “vu”, “VU”, “vut”, “VUT”, “Вануату республика”, “Вануатуну республикасы”, “Республика Вануату”, “ვანიატუშ რესპუბლიკა”, “వనౌటు”, “สาธารณรัฐวานูวาตู”, and “万那杜”
  • Historically known as: “New Hebrides Condominium”
  • Languages: Bislama, English, and French
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: sovereign state, island country, archipelagic state, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
-15.6548° or 15° 39′ 17″ south
Longitude of center
167.135° or 167° 8′ 6″ east
Population
215,000
Area
12,200 km² (4,710 miles²)
Elevation
616 metres (2,021 feet)
Capital
Currency
Vatu (VUV)
Phone code
.vu
Internet domain
678
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424313466
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2134431
Wiki­data ID
Q686
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Vanuatu” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Вануату”
  • Achinese: “Vanuatu”
  • Afrikaans: “Vanuatu”
  • Akan: “Vanuatu”
  • Albanian: “Vanuatu”
  • Amharic: “ቫኑአቱ”
  • Amis: “Vanuatu”
  • Angika: “वनुआटु”
  • Arabic: “فانوآتو”
  • Arabic: “فانواتو”
  • Aragonese: “Vanuatu”
  • Armenian: “Վանուատու”
  • Arpitan: “Vanuatu”
  • Assamese: “ভানাটু”
  • Asturian: “Vanuatu”
  • Atayal: “Vanuatu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vanuatu”
  • Balinese: “Vanuatu”
  • Bambara: “Vanuwatu”
  • Banjar: “Vanuatu”
  • Bashkir: “Вануату”
  • Basque: “Vanuatu”
  • Belarusian: “Вануату”
  • Bengali: “ভানুয়াটু”
  • Bengali: “ভানুয়াতু”
  • Betawi: “Wanuatu”
  • Bhojpuri: “वानूआतू”
  • Bishnupriya: “ভানুয়াতু”
  • Bislama: “Ripablik blong Vanuatu”
  • Bislama: “Vanuatu”
  • Bosnian: “Vanuatu”
  • Breton: “Vanuatu”
  • Bulgarian: “Вануату”
  • Burmese: “ဗနွားတူ”
  • Burmese: “ဗနွားတူနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Vanuatu”
  • Cebuano: “Vanuatu”
  • Central Bikol: “Banuatu”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤانواتوو”
  • Chavacano: “Vanuatu”
  • Chechen: “Вануату”
  • Cherokee: “ᏩᏂᎤᏩᏚ”
  • Cheyenne: “Vanuatu”
  • Chinese: “瓦努阿图 / 萬那杜”
  • Chinese: “瓦努阿图”
  • Chinese: “瓦努阿圖”
  • Chinese: “萬那杜”
  • Cornish: “Vanuatu”
  • Corsican: “Vanatu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Vanuatu”
  • Croatian: “Vanuatu”
  • Czech: “Vanuatu”
  • Dagbani: “Republic of Vanuatu”
  • Dagbani: “Vanuatu”
  • Danish: “Vanuatu”
  • Dhivehi: “ވަނުއާޓޫ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vanuatu”
  • Dotyali: “भानुआटु”
  • Dutch: “Vanuatu”
  • Dzongkha: “ཝ་ནུ་ཨ་ཏུ”
  • Dzongkha: “ཝཱ་ནའུ་ཊུ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Вануату”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فانواتو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤانواتو”
  • Esperanto: “Vanuatuo”
  • Estonian: “Vanuatu”
  • Ewe: “Vanuatu nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Vanuatu”
  • Faroese: “Vanuatu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Vanuatu”
  • Fijian: “Vanuatu”
  • Finnish: “Vanuatu”
  • French: “République de Vanuatu”
  • French: “Vanuatu”
  • Fulah: “Fanuwatu”
  • Fulah: “Wanuwaatuu”
  • Gagauz: “Vanuatu”
  • Galician: “Vanuatu”
  • Ganda: “Vanawuwatu”
  • Georgian: “ვანუატუ”
  • German: “Vanuatu”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Vanuatu”
  • Gilaki: “وانۊآتۊ”
  • Goan Konkani: “वनुआटु”
  • Greek: “Βανουάτου”
  • Guarani: “Vanuátu”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Vanuatu”
  • Gujarati: “વાનાતુ”
  • Gujarati: “વાનુઆતુ”
  • Haitian: “Vanwatou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vanuatu”
  • Hausa: “Banuwatu”
  • Hausa: “Vanuatu”
  • Hebrew: “ואמוטו”
  • Hebrew: “ואנואטו”
  • Hebrew: “ונואטו”
  • Hindi: “वन्वातु”
  • Hindi: “वानुअतु”
  • Hindi: “वानूआटू”
  • Hindi: “वानूआतू”
  • Hungarian: “Vanuatu”
  • Iban: “Vanuatu”
  • Icelandic: “Vanatú”
  • Icelandic: “Vanúatú”
  • Ido: “Vanuatu”
  • Igbo: “Vanuatu”
  • Iloko: “Vanuatu”
  • Inari Sami: “Vanuatu”
  • Indonesian: “Vanuatu”
  • Interlingua: “Vanuatu”
  • Interlingue: “Vanuatu”
  • Inuktitut: “ᕙᓄᐊᑐ”
  • Irish: “Vanuatú”
  • Italian: “Vanuatu”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Vanuatu”
  • Japanese: “バヌアツ”
  • Japanese: “バヌアツ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Vanuatu”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vanuatu”
  • Kalmyk: “Вануһудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ವನುವಾಟು”
  • Kannada: “ವನೌಟು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Vanuatu”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Вануату”
  • Kashmiri: “وانوٗتوٗ”
  • Kazakh: “Вануату”
  • Khmer: “វ៉ានូទូ”
  • Khmer: “វ៉ានូអាទូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Vanuatu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Vanuwatu”
  • Kirghiz: “Вануату”
  • Korean: “바누아투”
  • Kotava: “Vanuatua”
  • Kurdish: “Vanûatû”
  • Ladin: “Vanuatu”
  • Ladino: “Vanuatu”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດວານູອາຕູ”
  • Lao: “ວານູອາຕູ”
  • Lao: “ວານົວຕູ”
  • Latin: “Vanuatu”
  • Latvian: “Vanuatu”
  • Ligurian: “Vanuatu”
  • Limburgan: “Vanuatu”
  • Lingala: “Vanuatu”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Vanuatu”
  • Literary Chinese: “萬那杜”
  • Lithuanian: “Vanuatu”
  • Livvi: “Vanuatu”
  • Lombard: “Vanuatu”
  • Low German: “Vanuatu”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Vanuatu”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Vanuatu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vanuatu”
  • Macedonian: “Ванату”
  • Macedonian: “Вануату”
  • Malagasy: “Vanoato”
  • Malagasy: “Vanoatò”
  • Malay: “Vanuatu”
  • Malayalam: “വന്വാതു”
  • Malayalam: “വാനുവാടു”
  • Maltese: “Vanuatu”
  • Maltese: “Vanwatu”
  • Manipuri: “ꯚꯥꯅꯨꯑꯥꯇꯨ”
  • Manx: “Vanuatu”
  • Maori: “Whenuatū”
  • Marathi: “वानुआतु”
  • Marathi: “व्हानुआतू”
  • Mazanderani: “وانواتو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Vanuatu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vanuatu”
  • Minangkabau: “Vanuatu”
  • Mingrelian: “ვანუატუ”
  • Mongolian: “Вануату”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤانواتو”
  • Nauru: “Banuatu”
  • Navajo: “Adeeshzhahnii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “भानुअटु”
  • Nepali: “भानुआतु”
  • Newari: “भानुआटु”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Vanuatu”
  • North Ndebele: “Vhanuatu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wanuaatuu”
  • Northern Sami: “Vanuatu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanuatu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vanuatu”
  • Norwegian: “Vanuatu”
  • Novial: “Vanuatu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vanuatu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fanuatīega”
  • Oriya: “ଭାନୁଆଟୁ”
  • Oriya: “ଭାନୁଆତୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Вануату”
  • Pali: “वनुवाटु”
  • Pampanga: “Vanuatu”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਨੁਆਤੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਨੂਆਟੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Vanuatu”
  • Persian: “وانواتو”
  • Piemontese: “Vanuatu”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Wanwaatuu”
  • Polish: “Vanuatu”
  • Portuguese: “Vanuatu”
  • Pushto: “واناتو”
  • Pushto: “وانواتو”
  • Pushto: “ونواتو”
  • Quechua: “Vanuatu”
  • Quechua: “Wanwatu”
  • Romanian: “Vanuatu”
  • Romansh: “Vanuatu”
  • Rundi: “Vanuwatu”
  • Russia Buriat: “Вануату”
  • Russian: “Вануату”
  • Rusyn: “Вануату”
  • Sakizaya: “Vanuatu”
  • Samoan: “Vanuatu”
  • Samogitian: “Vanuatu”
  • Sango: “Vanuatü”
  • Sanskrit: “वनुवाटु”
  • Sardinian: “Vanuatu”
  • Scots: “Vanuatu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bhanuatu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vanuatu”
  • Serbian: “Ванату”
  • Serbian: “Вануату”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vanuatu”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဝႅၼ်ႇၼူးဝႃႇထူႇ”
  • Shona: “Vanuatu”
  • Sicilian: “Vanuatu”
  • Silesian: “Vanuatu”
  • Sindhi: “وانوآتو”
  • Sindhi: “وينيٽيو”
  • Sinhala: “වනුආටු”
  • Sinhala: “වනුවාටු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Vanuatu”
  • Slovak: “Vanuatu”
  • Slovenian: “Vanuatu”
  • Somali: “Fanuaatu”
  • Somali: “Fanwatu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وانواتو”
  • Spanish: “Vanuatu”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Vanuatu”
  • Sundanese: “Vanuatu”
  • Swahili: “Vanuatu”
  • Swedish: “Vanuatu”
  • Swiss German: “Vanuatu”
  • Tagalog: “Vanuatu”
  • Tahitian: “Vanuatu”
  • Tajik: “Вануату”
  • Tamil: “வனுவாட்டு”
  • Tatar: “Вануату”
  • Telugu: “వనాటు”
  • Telugu: “వనువాటు”
  • Telugu: “వానువాటు”
  • Thai: “ประเทศวานูวาตู”
  • Thai: “ประเทศวานูอาตู”
  • Thai: “วานูอาตู”
  • Tibetan: “ཝ་ནུ་ཨ་ཐུ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཝ་ནུའ་ཏུ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቫኑአቱ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Vanuatu”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Vanuatu”
  • Tsonga: “Vanuatu”
  • Tumbuka: “Vanuatu”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ڥانواتو”
  • Turkish: “Vanuatu Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Vanuatu”
  • Turkmen: “Wanuatu”
  • Tuvinian: “Вануату”
  • Twi: “Vanuatu”
  • Udmurt: “Вануату”
  • Uighur: “ۋانۇئاتۇ”
  • Ukrainian: “Вануату”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Vanuatu”
  • Urdu: “وانواتو”
  • Urdu: “وینوآٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Vanuatu”
  • Venetian: “Vanuatu”
  • Veps: “Vanuatu”
  • Vietnamese: “Va-nu-a-tu”
  • Vietnamese: “Vanuatu”
  • Volapük: “Vanuatuäns”
  • Võro: “Vanuatu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vanuatu”
  • Welsh: “Fanwatw”
  • Welsh: “Vanuatu”
  • Western Armenian: “Վանուաթու”
  • Western Frisian: “Fanuatû”
  • Western Frisian: “Fanûatû”
  • Western Frisian: “Vanuatu”
  • Western Mari: “Вануату”
  • Western Panjabi: “وینوآتو”
  • Wolof: “Wanuatu”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦努阿图”
  • Yakut: “Вануату”
  • Yiddish: “וואנואטו”
  • Yiddish: “וואַנואַטו”
  • Yoruba: “Faniatu”
  • Yoruba: “Fanuatu”
  • Yue Chinese: “溫納圖”
  • Yue Chinese: “萬那杜”
  • Zeeuws: “Vanuatu”
  • Zhuang: “Vanuatu”
  • Zulu: “i-Vanuatu”
  • “ma Wanuwatu”
  • “Vanuatu”
  • “वानूआतू”

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