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PRONUNCIATION OF TOKELAU ISLANDS

Tokelau Islands  [ˈtəʊkəˌlaʊ ˈaɪləndz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOKELAU ISLANDS

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Tokelau Islands is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TOKELAU ISLANDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tokelau Islands

Tokelau

Tokelau /ˈtoʊkəlaʊ/ is a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean that consists of three tropical coral atolls with a combined land area of 10 km2 and a population of approximately 1,400. Its capital rotates yearly between the three atolls. Tokelau lies north of the Samoan Islands, Swains Island being the nearest, east of Tuvalu, south of the Phoenix Islands, southwest of the more distant Line Islands, and northwest of the Cook Islands. The United Nations General Assembly designates Tokelau a Non-Self-Governing Territory. Until 1976, the official name was Tokelau Islands. It is a New Zealand territory, and is sometimes referred to by its older colonial name, the Union Islands.

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Hollands
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Islands
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Lowlands
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Midlands
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Netherlands
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Newlands
ˈnjuːləndz
seconds
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Symonds
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thousands
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uplands
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viands
ˈvaɪəndz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOKELAU ISLANDS

Tokelau
token
token economy
token money
token payment
token strike
token vote
tokenism
tokenistic
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Tokharian
tokology
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Tokyo

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOKELAU ISLANDS

British Virgin Islands
Caicos Islands
Canary Islands
Cayman Islands
Cook Islands
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
hands
Keeling Islands
lands
Mariana Islands
Marshall Islands
Northern Mariana Islands
Paracel Islands
Sandwich Islands
Solomon Islands
the Islands
the Netherlands
Turks and Caicos Islands
Virgin Islands
West Midlands

Synonyms and antonyms of Tokelau Islands in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Tokelau Islands» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOKELAU ISLANDS

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Translator English - Chinese

托克劳群岛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Islas Tokelau
570 millions of speakers

English

Tokelau Islands
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तोकेलाउ द्वीप
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

جزر توكيلاو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

острова Токелау
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Ilhas Tokelau
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টোকেলাউ দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Iles Tokelau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepulauan Tokelau
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tokelau -Inseln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トケラウ諸島
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

토켈 라우 제도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kapuloan Tokelau
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Quần đảo Tokelau
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டோகீலாவ் தீவுகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तोकेलाऊ बेटे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tokelau Adaları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Isole Tokelau
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wyspy Tokelau
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Острови Токелау
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Insulele Tokelau
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Τοκελάου Νήσοι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Tokelau Eilande
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Tokelau öarna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Tokelau -øyene
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Tokelau Islands

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOKELAU ISLANDS»

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Landfalls of Paradise: Cruising Guide to the Pacific Islands
... Public holiday Labour Day — Public holiday Tokehehga Day — Public holiday Christmas Day — Public holiday Boxing Day — Public holiday vary from year to year. Atafu 9S Tokelau Based on chart BA 765 "Tokelau Islands 11: Tokelau.
Earl R. Hinz, Jim Howard, 2006
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Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, ...
The administrative office for the islands is in Apia, Western Samoa. Plans were being made in the early 1990s to move the administration from Apia to the Tokelau islands. Tokelauans will take control of their administration, with their own head ...
Reilly Ridgell, 1995
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... (Tokelau) Nuku Nono Atoll (Tokelau) Nukuno Atoll (Tokelau) Nukunono ( Tokelau) Nukunonu Atoll (Tokelau Islands) [Former heading] BT Islands— Tokelau Nukunonu Atoll (Tokelau Islands) USE Nukunonu (Tokelau) Nukunu language (May ...
Library of Congress, 2006
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International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania
The depopulated Tokelau islands attracted traders and beachcombers of Polynesian, French, Portuguese, German, Scottish, and American nationality who married local women. One of these individuals, Jules Tirel, established a copra ...
Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda, 1996
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Pacific Neighbors: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and ...
A few years ago the United Nations helped put up a tower that would help the islanders send and get messages. It is hard for New Zealand to run the Tokelau islands. It costs a lot of money. The islands have become somewhat more modern.
Betty Dunford, Reilly Ridgell, 1996
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A Handbook of the Tokelau language
This book is the first extensive description of Tokelauan, a Polynesian language spoken by about 1,600 people on the three Tokelau Islands and 3,000 Tokelauans living in New Zealand.
Even Hovdhaugen, 1989
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Guide to Standard Floras of the World: An Annotated, ...
974 Tokelau Islands (Tokelau group and Swains Island) Area: Tokelau group, 10 km2; Swains I., 2.1 km2. Vascular flora: Tokelau group, 40 species; Swains I., 95 species (including introductions). - Includes the three Tokelauan atolls of Atafu, ...
David G. Frodin, 2001
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Hierarchy: Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations
"Socio-Economic Organisation of the Tokelau Islands." In Proceedings of the Eighth Congress o/ Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Tokyo. . 1982. Aid and Dependency in a Small Pacific Territory. Working Paper 62, Department of ...
Knut Mikjel Rio, Olaf H. Smedal, 2009
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Asia and Oceania: International Dictionary of Historic Places
The depopulated Tokelau islands attracted traders and beachcombers of Polynesian, French, Portuguese, German, Scottish, and American nationality who married local women. One of these individuals, Jules Tirel, established a copra ...
Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger, 2012
10
South Pacific Oral Traditions
It emphasizes a particular preference and individual contribution within the musical domain. Ihaia and His Background The atoll of Nukunonu, the Tokelau Profile of a Composer: Ihaia Puka, A Pulotu of the Tokelau Islands Allan Thomas and ...
Ruth H. Finnegan, Margaret Rose Orbell, 1995

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOKELAU ISLANDS»

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150 Years of News: Tokelauans settle in Wellington to escape …
Children of Tokelauan migrants have a singalong at Elsdon Youth Camp, Porirua, ... to New Zealand's creation of the Tokelau Islands Resettlement Scheme. «The Dominion Post, Jul 15»
2
Tokelauan community worker rewarded with Queen's Service Medal
He looks after Tokelauns at Pacific Islands Presbyterian Church in Cannons Creek. The three atolls that form the Tokelau Islands have a combined population of ... «The Dominion Post, Jun 15»
3
Tokelau islands shift to solar energy
Tokelau has become the first territory able to meet all its electricity needs with solar ... The remote islands of Tokelau lie between New Zealand and Hawaii. «BBC News, Nov 12»
4
3 teenage boys rescued after 50 days stranded at sea
Unbelievable," Tanu Filo, whose 15-year-old son Filo was among the survivors, told CNN Thursday in a telephone interview from his native Tokelau Islands. «CNN International, Nov 10»

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