Sigavé (also Singave or Sigave) is one of the three official

chiefdom A chiefdom is a political organization of people representation (politics), represented or government, governed by a tribal chief, chief. Chiefdoms have been discussed, depending on their scope, as a stateless society, stateless, state (polity) ...

s of the French territory of

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in the South

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. (The other two chiefdoms are

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and Alo.)

Geography

Overview

Sigave encompasses the western third of Futuna Island (30 km² of Futuna Island's total area of 83 km²). Sigave has six villages, which together had a population of 1,275 as of the 2018

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. The

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and largest village is

Leava Leava is the largest village in the chiefdom of Sigave, on the French Pacific island of Futuna, part of the Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (), is a French island territorial ...

(pop. 322).

Administrative division

The chiefdom of Sigave is coextensive with the district of the same name. Its six villages (or

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) are as follows:

History

Education

The junior high school in the area is Collège Fiua de Sigave.Cartographie des établissements du second degré
" Wallis and Futuna. June 24, 2016. Retrieved on September 14, 2016.

References

External links

Area figures

* Chiefdoms and districts of Wallis and Futuna Kingdoms Island countries {{WallisFutuna-geo-stub