Luganville, on the island of Espiritu Santo, is the second-largest city in Vanuatu after the capital, Port Vila, and is also called Santo by northern islanders and Kanal by rural residents. It served as a major American military base during the Second World War, when four airfields and extensive facilities were built there, and its main street, Boulevard Higinson, is unusually wide because a base commander insisted it be able to carry four tanks abreast; the South Pacific WWII Museum, opened in 2012, and the wreck of the SS President Coolidge remain popular tourism draws. Its population was 17,719 at the 2020 census.
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Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Wikipedia, Luganville
Wikimedia Foundationlead section, first sentence
Luganville is the second largest city in Vanuatu after the capital Port Vila; it is located on the island of Espiritu Santo and has a population of 17,719 as of the 2020 census.
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- In Group: Cities of Oceania (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source 2. GeoNames: Luganville - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2136150
-15.51989 167.16235 P PPLA VU 13 13397 8 Pacific/Efate
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 8 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -15.75, 167.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -15.75, 167.25
-15.75 167.25 Af
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