Vava’u
Vava’u is a group of more than 50 islands in Tonga, about 250 km north of Tongatapu. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: island group with 14,300 residents
- Description: island group of Tonga
- Also known as: “Vava‘u”, “Vava‘u Islands Division”, “Vavaʻu”, and “Vavaʻu group”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neiafu and Vaimalo.
Neiafu
Town
Photo: Msdstefan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Neiafu is the second-largest town in Tonga 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.
Vaimalo
Hamlet
Vaimalō, is a village in the western district of Vavaʻu in Tonga. The population is 114.
Tuʻanuku
Hamlet
Tu'anuku is a village on the western part of Vava'u, Tonga. It has several nicknames such as Toa-ko-Tavakefai'ana, Halapukepuke, Hala-siki-'o-Mata'aho and also Uini-e-Ngofe.
Vava’u
- Location: Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Vava’u” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فافاو”
- Bengali: “ভাভাউ”
- Bulgarian: “Вавау”
- Catalan: “Grup Vava’u”
- 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: “Vava’u”
- Finnish: “Vavaʻu”
- Finnish: “Vavau”
- French: “Vava’u”
- French: “Vavaʻu”
- Galician: “Grupo Vava’u”
- Georgian: “ვავაუს კუნძულები”
- German: “Vava’u”
- German: “Vavaʻu”
- Greek: “Βαβάου”
- Gujarati: “વાવાઉ”
- Hebrew: “ואוואו”
- Hindi: “वावाउ”
- Indonesian: “Vava’u”
- Italian: “Vava’u”
- Italian: “Vavaʻu”
- Japanese: “ヴァヴァウ諸島”
- Kannada: “ವವಾವು”
- Korean: “바바우 제도”
- Latvian: “Vavaʻu”
- Lithuanian: “Vava’u”
- Lithuanian: “Vavau”
- Malay: “Vavaʻu”
- Marathi: “वावाऊ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vava’u”
- Norwegian: “Vavaʻu”
- Persian: “جزیره واوائو”
- Polish: “Vava’u”
- Polish: “Vavaʻu”
- Portuguese: “Vava’u”
- Portuguese: “Vavaʻu”
- Russian: “Вавау”
- Russian: “Острова Вавау”
- Sinhala: “වවා ‘උ”
- Sinhala: “වවාඋ, ටොංගා”
- Slovak: “Vava’u”
- Slovak: “Vava´u”
- Spanish: “Grupo Vava’u”
- Spanish: “Uta Vava‘u”
- Spanish: “Vava’u”
- Spanish: “Vavao”
- Swedish: “Vava’u”
- Swedish: “Vavau”
- Tamil: “வாவா ʻயு”
- Telugu: “వావాయు”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบูรูริ”
- Thai: “วาวาอู”
- Turkish: “Vava’u”
- Ukrainian: “Вава’у”
- Ukrainian: “Вавау”
- Urdu: “واواؤ”
- Vietnamese: “Vavaʻu”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Vava’u”. Photo: clr flickr, CC BY 2.0.