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Mota Lava

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Mota Lava
Mota Lava. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mota Lava or Motalava is an island of the Banks group, in the north of Vanuatu. It forms a single coral system with the small island of Ra.

The 2009 census figures give a population of 1,640 inhabitants (Mota Lava + Ra), which amounts to a population density of 67 people per km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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