Vaitupu (Wallis and Futuna)
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 14 ′ S , 176 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| Country | France | ||
| Wallis and Futuna | |||
| kingdom | Uvea | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | WF | ||
| District | Hihifo | ||
| Residents | 441 (2013) | ||
 Eglise Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul in Vaitupu
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Vaitupu is a village and capital of the Hihifo district in the Kingdom of Uvea , which belongs to France as part of the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna .
location
Vaitupu is located in the northeast of Hihifos and also on the northeast coast of the island of Uvea , which belongs to the Wallis Islands . The village is widely scattered and consists mostly of small houses. Only in the east of the village, near the coast, between the two churches Eglise Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul and the Chapelle Saint Pierre Chanel, a little further north is there a slightly higher density of houses.
population
As in the rest of Wallis and Futuna, the population is decreasing:
| Vaitupu: Population from 1996 to 2013 | ||||
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| year | Residents | |||
| 1996 | 634 |
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| 2003 | 607 |
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| 2006 | 594 |
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| 2008 | 503 |
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| 2013 | 441 | |||
| Data source: INSEE | ||||
Individual evidence
- ↑ Populations légales des îles Wallis et Futuna en 2013. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), November 21, 2013, accessed on December 1, 2017 (French).