Vava’u

Vava’u is a group of more than 50 islands in , about 250 km north of . They are either raised coral limestone or coral atolls. The beautiful harbour opposite the main town of Neiafu is a common destination for yachties sailing the South Pacific.
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  • Type: island group with 14,300 residents
  • Description: island group of Tonga
  • Also known as: “Grup Vava’u”, “Uta Vava‘u”, “Vava‘u”, “Vava‘u Islands Division”, “Vavaʻu”, “Vavaʻu group”, “Vavao”, “Vavau”, “Острова Вавау”, and “จังหวัดบูรูริ”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neiafu and Vaimalo.

Town
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is the second-largest town in with a population of 3,845 in 2021. It is situated beside the Port of Refuge, a deep-water harbour on the south coast of Vavaʻu, the main island of the Vavaʻu archipelago in northern Tonga.

Hamlet
Vaimalō, is a village in the western district of Vavaʻu in . The population is 114.

Hamlet
Tu'anuku is a village on the western part of Vava'u, . It has several nicknames such as Toa-ko-Tavakefai'ana, Halapukepuke, Hala-siki-'o-Mata'aho and also Uini-e-Ngofe.

Vava’u

Latitude
-18.6667° or 18° 40′ south
Longitude
-174° or 174° west
Population
14,300
Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TO VAV
Open location code
52H882M2+82
Geo­Names ID
4032231
Wiki­data ID
Q859666
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Vava’u” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቫቫው”
  • Arabic: “فافاو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vavau”
  • Bengali: “ভাভাউ”
  • Bulgarian: “Вавау”
  • Catalan: “Vava’u”
  • Catalan: “Vavaʻu”
  • Cebuano: “Vava‘u Group”
  • Cebuano: “Vava‘u Island”
  • Chinese: “瓦瓦乌群岛”
  • Chinese: “瓦瓦烏群島”
  • Danish: “Vavaʻu”
  • Dutch: “Vava’u”
  • Finnish: “Vavaʻu”
  • French: “Vava’u”
  • French: “Vavaʻu”
  • Galician: “Grupo Vava’u”
  • Georgian: “ვავაუს კუნძულები”
  • German: “Vavaʻu”
  • German: “Vavau”
  • Greek: “Βαβάου”
  • Gujarati: “વાવાઉ”
  • Hausa: “Vavau”
  • Hebrew: “ואוואו”
  • Hindi: “वावाउ”
  • Indonesian: “Vava’u”
  • Italian: “Vava’u”
  • Italian: “Vavaʻu”
  • Japanese: “ヴァヴァウ”
  • Japanese: “ヴァヴァウ諸島”
  • Javanese: “Vavau”
  • Kannada: “ವವಾವು”
  • Kazakh: “Вавау”
  • Kirghiz: “Вавау”
  • Korean: “바바우 제도”
  • Latvian: “Vavaʻu”
  • Lithuanian: “Vava’u”
  • Lithuanian: “Vavau”
  • Malay: “Vavaʻu”
  • Malay: “Vavau”
  • Marathi: “वावाऊ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vava’u”
  • Norwegian: “Vavaʻu”
  • Oromo: “Vavau”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਵਾਉ”
  • Persian: “جزیره واوائو”
  • Persian: “واوائو”
  • Polish: “Vava’u”
  • Polish: “Vavaʻu”
  • Portuguese: “Vava’u”
  • Portuguese: “Vavau”
  • Pushto: “ویواو”
  • Russian: “Вавау”
  • Sinhala: “වවා ‘උ”
  • Sinhala: “වවාඋ, ටොංගා”
  • Slovak: “Vava’u”
  • Slovak: “Vava´u”
  • Somali: “Vavau”
  • Spanish: “Vava’u”
  • Spanish: “Vavau”
  • Swahili: “Vavau”
  • Swedish: “Vava’u”
  • Tajik: “Вавау”
  • Tamil: “வாவா ʻயு”
  • Tatar: “Вавау”
  • Telugu: “వావాయు”
  • Thai: “วาวาอู”
  • Turkish: “Vava’u”
  • Ukrainian: “Вава’у”
  • Ukrainian: “Вавау”
  • Urdu: “واواؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Vavau”
  • Vietnamese: “Vavaʻu”

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