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Port-Vila, Vanuatu
Port-Vila, Vanuatu

Port-Vila

national capital, Vanuatu
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Port-Vila, capital and largest town of the republic of Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Port-Vila is located on Mélé Bay, on the southwest coast of Éfaté, and is the commercial centre of the island group. Although the town is French in appearance, the population is multinational, including ni-Vanuatu, British, French, Chinese, and Vietnamese. An active commercial port, the town has hospitals, hotels, casinos, markets and shopping districts, a sports stadium, a cultural centre, a teacher-training institution, a campus of the University of the South Pacific, and several meat- and fish-processing plants.

aftermath of Cyclone Pam in Port-Vila, Vanuatu
aftermath of Cyclone Pam in Port-Vila, VanuatuA boy and his father amid the debris of their home, which was destroyed by Cyclone Pam, Port-Vila, Vanuatu, March 2015.

Bauerfield, just outside the town, is the major international airport of Vanuatu. Port-Vila served as a base for Allied forces in World War II. A strong offshore earthquake caused widespread damage to the town and surrounding area in January 2002. In March 2015 Cyclone Pam, a category 5 (highest-intensity) tropical cyclone, devastated the town once again. Its winds, at speeds up to 185 miles (300 km) per hour, ruined or razed homes and businesses throughout Port-Vila and caused similarly severe damage throughout the islands. Pop. (2009) 44,040.

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