Alofi

Alofi is a small town on Niue, an island in the Pacific Ocean.

It is beside a bay of blue sea.

Alofi is the capital of Niue, an island in the Pacific Ocean. Universalis says Niue is a raised coral island of about 260 square kilometers, a wide limestone plateau with cliffs dropping to a narrow strip of coast.

Alofi is made up of two villages, Alofi North and Alofi South, by Alofi Bay. The 2022 census counted 606 people there, out of 1,689 on the whole island.

Wikidata (Q30966): capital of Niue. Universalis 'NIUE' (Alain Huetz de Lemps): an island of Oceania at about 19° S in the central Pacific; 260 km², as large as all the Cook Islands together; a raised coral island forming a wide saucer-shaped plateau of coral limestone 50 to 65 meters high; at the foot of the cliff a narrow coastal strip edged with fringing reefs; 1,689 inhabitants in 2022, living in villages along the ring road. City Population (Niue Statistics / PRISM): Alofi (incl. Alofi South, Alofi North) 978 (1981 census), 581 (2006), 614 (2011), 597 (2017), 606 (11 November 2022, provisional); from 2011 the figures count usual residents.

Look at the two big shady trees and the bright, colorful buildings!

The sky is blue, and the road is quiet.

The photographer, the English Wikipedia user Pseudopanax, took this photo on 10 June 2025 and describes it as Alofi's town center, the Commercial Centre, and the main street in the late afternoon. Two big trees spread their branches over a green lawn in front of a row of low, brightly painted buildings, with palm trees, a blue sky and a quiet road.

On Wikidata, the Tāoga Niue Museum, Niue's national museum and cultural center, is about 0.4 kilometers north of the town's point, and Niue High School about 1.3 kilometers east.

Commons: 'Alofi town center (Commercial Centre)', own work by Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia, released into the public domain (PD-self); dated 10 June 2025; his description 'Alofi town center (Commercial Centre) and main street late afternoon'; camera point 19.0544° S, 169.9204° W, 0.19 km NNE of the town's Wikidata point. Wikidata, from the town point (Q30966): Tāoga Niue Museum (Q108471226), 'national museum and cultural centre in Alofi', inception 2018, 0.42 km N; Alofi Bay (Q1017224) 0.79 km NNW; Niue High School (Q28183071) 1.25 km E.

People on Niue grow taro, yams and bananas.

Bees make honey there, and some of it is sent to other countries!

Universalis says people on Niue grow food crops such as taro, yams, cassava and bananas, and plant coconut palms, mostly along the coast. Beekeeping has grown, and honey has become an export, along with taro, coconut and vanilla, though exports are very small.

Inland, about 3,200 hectares of thick forest are used by a small timber industry.

Universalis: poor soil and limited resources; food crops (taro, yam, cassava, bananas) and coconut plantations mostly on the coastal strip; beehives have spread and honey has become an export product with taro, coconut and vanilla, though exports remain very limited; inland, 3,200 ha of dense forest are worked by a small timber industry; tourism growing since the last quarter of the 20th century.