Alo (also known unofficially as Tu`a or the Kingdom of Futuna) is one of three official

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s of the French territory of

Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (), is a French island territorial collectivity, collectivity in the Oceania, South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga t ...

, in

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, in the South

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. (The other two chiefdoms are

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and

Sigave Sigavé (also Singave or Sigave) is one of the three official chiefdoms of the France, French territory of Wallis and Futuna in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. (The other two chiefdoms are Uvea (Wallis and Futuna), Uvea and Alo (Wallis and Futu ...

Geography

Overview

The chiefdom known as Alo encompasses the eastern two thirds of Futuna Island - out of ) - and all of Alofi Island ( (which is virtually uninhabited). Alofi Island lies to the southeast of Futuna Island. The total area of the chiefdom is . It comprises nine villages, which together have a population is 1,950 (as of the 2018

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

). The capital and largest village of Alo is Ono, which has about 738 residents. The current '' Tu`i Agaifo'' or king of the Kingdom of Alo is Lino Leleivai, who has served in this position since his

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on 29 November 2018 (after the previous king, Filipo Katoa, abdicated because of health concerns). The island bird is a hawk.

Administrative division

The chiefdom is coextensive with the district of the same name. Alo’s nine villages (or

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) are as follows:

History

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