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Tabwakea
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Tabwakea is the largest village on the island of Kiritimati, within the archipelago of Line Islands of Kiribati.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kiritimati
- Region
- Line Islands
- Country
- Kiribati
- Population
- 1,881
- Timezone
- Pacific/Kiritimati
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tabwakea
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tabwakea Church - Kiritimati (14356788931).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Tabwakea Church in 2014.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Kiribati
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Local council
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kiritimati
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 3,001
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +14
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Kiribati
- Population
- 3547
- Image
- Tabwakea Church - Kiritimati (14356788931).jpg
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Name
- Demographics
- References
Tabwakea is the largest village on the island of Kiritimati, within the archipelago of Line Islands of Kiribati.
== Name == Tabwakea means turtle in Gilbertese, which refers to the island's first name given by James Cook, Turtles Island, which later became Christmas Island (Kiritimati).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tabwakea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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