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((Short description|Province of Vanuatu))
((needs more sources|date=November 2023))
[[File:Tafea in Vanuatu.svg|thumb|right|250px|Tafea in Vanuatu]]
'''Tafea''' is the southernmost of the six [[Provinces of Vanuatu|provinces]] of [[Vanuatu]]. The name is an [[acronym]] for the five main islands that make up the province: '''T'''anna, '''A'''neityum, '''F'''utuna, '''E'''rromango and '''A'''niwa.

==History==
[[File:Mt. Yasur Eruption.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mt. Yasur on Tanna island]]
[[File:Tafea Province Flag.svg|thumb|200x200px|Flag of Tafea Province]]
[[File:Bandera Tanna Vanuatu.svg|thumb|right|200px|Flag of secessionist Tanna nation]]
[[File:Tafea Flag.svg|thumb|right|200px|Flag of the secessionist Tafea nation]]
Unlike the other provinces of Vanuatu, the territorial integrity of this administrative unit has been unchanged since the times of the [[Condominium (international law)|Condominium]], when it was called ''Southern District'', or ''Tanna'' after the main island. Only the [[Capital (political)|capital]] moved from [[Lenakel]] to nearby [[Isangel]], less than two kilometers more southeast.

A secessionist movement began in the 1970s, and the Nation of Tanna was proclaimed on 24 March 1974. While the [[United Kingdom|British]] were more open to allowing its holdings in Vanuatu independence, it was opposed by the [[France|French]] colonists and finally suppressed by the [[Anglo-French Condominium]] authorities on 29 June 1974.

In 1980, there was another attempt to secede, declaring the Tafea Nation on 1 January 1980, its name coming from the initials of the five islands that were to be part of the nation (Tanna, Aniwa, Futuna, Erromango and Aneityum). British forces intervened on 26 May 1980, allowing the islands to become part of the newly independent nation of Vanuatu on 30 July 1980.

==Geography==

The province has a population of 32,540<ref>[http://www.governmentofvanuatu.gov.vu/index.php/publicationdocuments/vanuatu-statistics 2009 Census Summary release final] - Government of Vanuatu</ref> people and an area of 1,628&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>. The main island, though second to [[Erromango]] in area, is [[Tanna (island)|Tanna]], with some 80 percent of the province population, with the provincial capital of [[Isangel]], and the largest village of [[Lenakel]], both close together on the southwest coast.

The three larger islands are [[Melanesia]]n, but the smaller two, Aniwa and Futuna, also known under the collective term ''Erronan Islands'', are [[Polynesian outlier]]s. Futuna is sometimes called West Futuna to distinguish it from [[Futuna Island, Wallis and Futuna]].

The island of Tanna has the world's most accessible volcano, [[Mount Yasur]], with 1,084 meters the highest peak of the province. [[Aniwa Island]] is the only [[coral]] island, the other four are [[volcano|volcanic]] and reach much higher elevations than Aniwa.

[[Anatom]] is the southernmost island of Vanuatu (not counting the remote, tiny and uninhabited [[Matthew and Hunter Islands]], ((convert|280|to(-)|335|km|abbr=off)) to the southeast, which are disputed with [[New Caledonia]], but which are considered by the people of Anatom Island part of their custom ownership). Its southeastern cape ''Nétchan Néganneaing'' is the southernmost point of land in Vanuatu, more southerly than the southern satellite islet [[Inyeug]]. The latter, however, is surrounded [[Intao Reef]], that extends even further south, albeit submerged, thus being the southernmost feature of Vanuatu.

===Islands===
{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
!Island||main<br/>village||Land Area<br/>(km<sup>2</sup>) || Population<ref>[http://www.spc.int/prism/country/vu/stats/Publications/2009%20Census%20Summary%20release%20final.pdf Vanuatu Census of Population 2009]</ref>||peak||height<br/><small>(meters)</small>||Coordinates

|-
|[[Tanna (island)|'''T'''anna]]||[[Lenakel]]||align="right" |565||align="right" |28,799||[[Mount Tukosmera]]||align="right" |1,084||
((Coord|19|29|15|S|169|19|50|E|type:isle_region:VU-TA|name=Tanna))
|-
|[[Aniwa Island|'''A'''niwa]]||[[Ikaokao]]||align="right" |8||align="right" |341||–||align="right" |42||
((Coord|19|15|01|S|169|36|04|E|type:isle_region:VU-TA|name=Aniwa))
|-
|[[Futuna Island, Vanuatu|'''F'''utuna]]||[[Ihsia]]||align="right" |11||align="right" |513||[[Tatafou]]||align="right" |666||
((Coord|19|31|47|S|170|13|08|E|type:isle_region:VU-TA|name=Futuna))
|-
|[[Erromango|'''E'''rromango]]<ref group=note>including [[Vete Manung]] (Île de la Chèvre, Goat Island) (5.6&nbsp;km northeast, 0.12&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> area) and [[Vete Manung]] Island (15&nbsp;km northeast)</ref>||[[Potnarvin]]||align="right" |975||align="right" |1,950||[[Mount Santop]]||align="right" |886||
((Coord|18|48|50|S|169|07|22|E|type:isle_region:VU-TA|name=Erromango))
|-
|[[Aneityum|'''A'''neityum]]<ref group=note>including [[Inyeug]] Island (0.6&nbsp;km southwest, airport of [[Anatom]]), but without the remote [[Matthew and Hunter Islands]], which are considered by the people of Anatom Island part of their custom ownership</ref>||[[Anelgauhat]]||align="right" |162||align="right" |915||[[Mount Inrerow Atahein]]||align="right" |852||
((Coord|20|11|18|S|169|49|34|E|type:isle_region:VU-TA|name=Anatom))
|-style="background: #DDDDDD;" class="sortbottom"
|Tafea||[[Isangel]]||align="right" |1,721||align="right" |32,549||[[Mount Tukosmera]]||align="right" |1,084||
((Coord|19|30|S|169|30|E|type:isle_region:VU|name=Tafea))
|}

==References==
===Citations===
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===Footnotes===
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==External links==
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[[Category:Provinces of Vanuatu]]
[[Category:States and territories established in 1994]]
[[Category:Former unrecognized countries]]
[[Category:Former countries in Oceania]]
[[Category:Island countries]]

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