Vanuatu
Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is an island country in Melanesia, located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is 1,750 km east of northern Australia, 540 km northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Port-Vila
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Port Vila, or simply Vila, is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu.
Shefa
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Shefa 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.
Espiritu Santo
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Espiritu Santo is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, with an area of 3,955.5 km2 and a population of around 40,000 according to the 2009 census.
Destinations
Torba
13°45′S 167°30′E / 13.750°S 167.500°E Torba in VanuatuFlag of Torba ProvinceTorba is the northernmost and least populous province of Vanuatu.Penama
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Penama 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
- Languages: Bislama, English and French
- Categories: sovereign state, island country, archipelagic state and locality
- Location: Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
-15.6548° or 15° 39' 17" southLongitude of centre
167.135° or 167° 8' 6" eastPopulation
215,000Area
12,200 km² (4,710 miles²)Elevation
616 metres (2,021 feet)Capital
Port VilaCurrency
Vatu (VUV)Phone code
.vuInternet domain
678OpenStreetMap ID
node 424313466OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
2134431Wikidata ID
Q686Vanuatu Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Вануату
- Achinese: Vanuatu
- Afar: Vanuatu
- Afrikaans: Vanuatu
- Akan: Vanuatu
- Albanian: Vanuatu
- Amharic: Vanuatu
- Amharic: ቫኑአቱ
- Amis: Vanuatu
- Angika: वनुआटु
- Arabic: Vanuatu
- Arabic: فانوآتو
- Arabic: فانواتو
- Aragonese: Vanuatu
- Armenian: Վանուաթու
- Armenian: Վանուատու
- Arpitan: Vanuatu
- Assamese: ভানাটু
- Asturian: Vanuatu
- Avaric: Vanuatua
- Azerbaijani: Vanuatu
- Balinese: Vanuatu
- Bambara: Vanuwatu
- Banjar: Vanuatu
- Bashkir: Вануату
- Basque: Vanuatu
- Belarusian: Вануату
- Bengali: ভানুয়াটু
- Bengali: ভানুয়াতু
- Bhojpuri: वानूआतू
- Bishnupriya: ভানুয়াতু
- Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu
- Bislama: Vanuatu
- Bosnian: Vanuatu
- Breton: Vanuatu
- Bulgarian: Вануату
- Burmese: ဗနွားတူ
- Burmese: ဗနွားတူနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: República de Vanuatu
- Catalan: Vanuatu
- Cebuano: Vanuatu
- Central Bikol: Banuatu
- Central Kurdish: ڤانووئاتوو
- Chavacano: Vanuatu
- Chechen: Вануату
- Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎤᏩᏚ
- Cheyenne: Vanuatu
- Chinese: Vanuatu
- Chinese: 万那杜
- Chinese: 溫納圖
- 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
- Danish: Vanuatu
- Dhivehi: ވަނުއާޓޫ
- Dimli (individual language): Vanuatu
- Dotyali: भानुआटु
- Dutch: VU
- Dutch: VUT
- Dutch: Vanuatu
- Dzongkha: ཝ་ནུ་ཨ་ཏུ
- Eastern Mari: Вануату
- Egyptian Arabic: فانواتو
- English: Republic of Vanuatu
- English: VAN
- English: van
- English: vu
- English: vut
- Esperanto: Respubliko Vanuatuo
- Esperanto: VU
- Esperanto: Vanuatuo
- Estonian: Vanuatu
- Estonian: Vanuatu Vabariik
- Ewe: Vanuatu nutome
- Extremaduran: Vanuatu
- Faroese: Vanuatu
- Fiji Hindi: Vanuatu
- Fijian: Vanuatu
- Finnish: Vanuatu
- Finnish: Vanuatun tasavalta
- French: République de Vanuatu
- French: VU
- French: Vanuatu
- French: la République du Vanuatu
- Fulah: Fanuwatu
- Fulah: Wanuwaatuu
- Gagauz: Vanuatu
- Galician: Vanuatu
- Ganda: Vanawuwatu
- Georgian: ვანუატუ
- German: Vanuatu
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Vanuatu
- 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
- Hungarian: Vanuatu
- Hungarian: Vanuatui Köztársaság
- Hungarian: Új-Hebridák
- Icelandic: Vanatú
- Icelandic: Vanúatú
- Ido: Vanuatu
- Igbo: Vanuatu
- Iloko: Vanuatu
- Inari Sami: Vanuatu
- Inari Sami: Vanuatu täsiväldi
- 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
- 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: Vanuatu
- 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: Repubblika ta’ Vanuatu
- Maltese: Vanuatu
- Maltese: Vanwatu
- Manipuri: ꯚꯥꯅꯨꯑꯥꯇꯨ
- Manx: Vanuatu
- Maori: Whenuatū
- Marathi: वानुआतु
- Marathi: व्हानुआतू
- Min Dong Chinese: Vanuatu
- Min Nan Chinese: Vanuatu
- Minangkabau: Vanuatu
- Mingrelian: ვანუატუ
- Mongolian: Вануату
- Mongolian: ꯚꯥꯅꯨꯑꯥꯇꯨ
- Moroccan Arabic: ڤانواتو
- Nauru: Banuatu
- Navajo: Adeeshzhahnii Bikéyah
- Nepali: भानुअटु
- Nepali: भानुआटु
- Nepali: भानुआतु
- Newari: भानुआटु
- North Ndebele: Vhanuatu
- Northern Frisian: Wanuaatuu
- Northern Sami: Vanuatu
- Northern Sami: Vanuatu dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Vanuatu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Vanuatu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Vanuatu
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Vanuatu
- Novial: Vanuatu
- Occitan (post 1500): Vanuatu
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Fanuatu
- 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: ونواتو
- Quechua: Vanuatu
- Quechua: Wanwatu
- Romanian: Vanuatu
- Romansh: Vanuatu
- Rundi: Vanuwatu
- Russia Buriat: Вануату
- Russian: Вануату
- Russian: Республика Вануату
- 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: වනුවාටු
- Skolt Sami: Vanuatu
- Skolt Sami: Vanuatu tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Vanuatská republika
- Slovak: Vanuatu
- Slovenian: Vanuatu
- Somali: Fanuaatu
- Somali: Fanwatu
- South Azerbaijani: وانواتو
- Spanish: Republica de Vanuatu
- Spanish: República de Vanuatu
- Spanish: Vanuatu
- Sranan Tongo: Vanuatu
- Sundanese: Vanuatu
- Swahili: Vanuatu
- Swedish: Republiken Vanuatu
- Swedish: Vanuatu
- Swiss German: Vanuatu
- Tagalog: Vanuatu
- Tahitian: Vanuatu
- Tajik: Вануату
- Tamil: வனுவாட்டு
- Tatar: Вануату
- Telugu: వనాటు
- Telugu: వనువాటు
- Telugu: వనౌటు
- 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
- Tosk Albanian: Vanuatu
- Tunisian Arabic: ڥانواتو
- Turkish: Vanuatu
- Turkish: Vanuatu Cumhuriyeti
- Turkmen: Wanuatu
- Udmurt: Вануату
- Uighur: ۋانۇئاتۇ
- Ukrainian: Вануату
- Upper Sorbian: Vanuatu
- Urdu: وانواتو
- Urdu: وینوآٹو
- Uzbek: Vanuatu
- Venetian: Vanuatu
- Veps: Vanuatu
- Veps: Vanuatun Tazovaldkund
- Vietnamese: Tân Đảo
- 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: וואַנואַטו
- Yiddish: וואנואטו
- Yoruba: Faniatu
- Yoruba: Fanuatu
- Yue Chinese: 萬那杜
- Zeeuws: Vanuatu
- Zhuang: Vanuatu
- Zulu: i-Vanuatu
- Historic: New Hebrides Condominium
- Waenuwaatu
- ma Wanuwatu
- ڤانواتوو
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