The province's name is derived from the initial letters of "TORres" and "BAnks".

These are the main islands of Torba Province, excluding smaller and uninhabited islets.

The Torba province has seventeen languages, which are all Oceanic.

[3][4] From north to south, they are: Hiw, Lo-Toga, Lehali, Löyöp, Volow, Mwotlap, Lemerig, Vera'a, Vurës, Mwesen, Mota, Nume, Dorig, Koro, Olrat, Lakon, and Mwerlap.

[5] With an average of 550 speakers per language, Torba is one of the most linguistically dense areas of Vanuatu, which is itself the country with the highest density of languages per capita in the world.