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Kolopopo

Kolopopo is a village in Wallis and Futuna, which is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific containing 36 villages.

Kolopopo
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The place

Kolopopo is a village in Wallis and Futuna, which is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific containing 36 villages. It is located in Mua District on the southwest coast of Wallis Island. Its population according to the 2018 census was 99 people. The population has declined in this area due to lack of job opportunities and political tension on the main island. The currency used is Comptoirs Français du Pacifique (CFP) Franc.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kolopopo

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lake Lanutavake

    Lake Lanutavake is a small crater lake surrounded by jungle on the southwest side of Wallis in the Pacific. It lies to the northeast of Fineveke.

    3 km · lake in Wallis and Futuna (Oceania) · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kolopopo

Airports
Hihifo (WLS), 12 km
  • Apia → Kolopopo
    483 km · quickest by air, 8h 1m · $270–410
  • Pago Pago → Kolopopo
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Vava'u Island → Kolopopo
    641 km · quickest by air, 5h 55m · $260–400
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kolopopo

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kolopopo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,858 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,466 km
  3. 03
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    3,794 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    4,817 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    5,260 km

If you know how people move in Kolopopo – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kolopopo

  • Halalohuman settlement in Wallis and Futuna, France1.1 km
  • Utufuahuman settlement in France2.3 km
  • Gahihuman settlement in France3.2 km
  • Ha'atofovillage of Wallis and Futuna, France3.5 km
  • Mala'efo'ouhuman settlement in France1.1 km
  • Vaimalauhuman settlement in France3.4 km