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Honolulu

The capital of and its primary point of entry, Honolulu is by far the state's largest city, with 980,000 people—two-thirds of the state's population—residing within the metro area as of 2018.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Waikiki and Downtown Honolulu.

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One of the best-known beaches in the world, is a famous district of the city of Honolulu, on the of . Sandwiched between the Ala Wai Canal and the ocean in the shadow of the towering Diamond Head crater, is noted for being the tourist center of the Hawaiian Islands.

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is the commercial and governmental center of the Hawaiian Islands, with a number of cultural attractions for visitors to enjoy. Unlike many cities in the United States, Honolulu's downtown has few hotels, with the city's major concentration of hotels located in the tourist center of .

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Manoa and Makiki are two prominent neighborhoods of Honolulu situated in the foothills of the Ko'olau Mountains north of . Along with Nu'uanu, these neighborhoods sit within valleys which extend into the Ko'olau Range, varying in character…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Eastern Honolulu and Western Honolulu.

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is an area of Honolulu, made up of several neighborhoods between the Diamond Head crater near and Makapu'u Point, the very southeastern corner of Oahu.

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is an area of Honolulu, made up of the neighborhoods between Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. The neighborhoods of Kalihi, Moanalua, Salt Lake, as well as the Honolulu International Airport and Pearl Harbor are covered in this article.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Iolani Palace and Hawaii State Department of Education.

Museum
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The ʻIolani Palace was the royal residence of the rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi beginning with Kamehameha III under the Kamehameha Dynasty and ending with Queen Liliʻuokalani under the Kalākaua Dynasty.

Government office
The is a statewide public education system in the . The school district can be thought of as analogous to the school districts of other cities and communities in the United States, but in some manners can also be thought of as analogous to the state education agencies of other states.

Hospital
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Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children is a Women's and Children's hospital, It is part of Hawaiʻi Pacific Health's network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi within the neighborhood of Mōʻiliʻili.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kalihi and Moiliili.

Suburb
is a neighborhood of Honolulu on the of Oʻahu in , . Split by Likelike Highway, it is flanked by Liliha, , and to the east and Mapunapuna, , and to the west.

Neighborhood
Mōʻiliʻili, Hawaii is a neighborhood of Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu, , on the island of Oahu. Its name means “pebble lizard” in Hawaiian.

Suburb
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Mānoa is a valley on the island of Oahu, . It is a residential neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. The neighborhood is approximately three miles east and inland from and less than a mile from Ala Moana and Waikiki.

Honolulu

  • Type: City with 351,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, that is also the capital city of Hawaii
  • Also known as: “Anorourou”, “Big Pineapple”, “Gana-Rura”, “Gana-ruru”, “Ganaruro”, “Ganaruru”, “Hana-Rura”, “Hana-ruru”, “Hanarourou”, “Honoloulou”, “Honolulu CDP”, “Honolulu, Hawaii”, “Honolulu, HI”, “The Big Pineapple”, and “Urban Honolulu”
  • Postal codes: 96801-96826, 96828, 96830, 96836-96841, 96843, 96844, and 96846-96850
  • Categories: county seat, big city, consolidated city-county, and locality
  • Location: , , , ,
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Latitude
21.3045° or 21° 18′ 16″ north
Longitude
-157.8557° or 157° 51′ 20″ west
Population
351,000
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
IATA airport code
HNL
United Nations Location Codes
US HNL and US HNM
Open location code
73H4843V+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21442033
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5856195
Wiki­data ID
Q18094
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Honolulu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Honolulu”
  • Albanian: “Honolulu”
  • Amharic: “ሆኖሉሉ”
  • Arabic: “هونولولو”
  • Aragonese: “Honolulu”
  • Armenian: “Հոնոլուլու”
  • Asturian: “Honolulu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Honolulu”
  • Balinese: “Honolulu”
  • Bambara: “Honolulu”
  • Basque: “Honolulu”
  • Bavarian: “Honolulu”
  • Belarusian: “Ганалулу”
  • Bengali: “হনলুলু”
  • Bengali: “হনুলুলু”
  • Bislama: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Bislama: “Honolulu”
  • Bosnian: “Honolulu”
  • Breton: “Honolulu”
  • Bulgarian: “Хонолулу”
  • Burmese: “ဟိုနိုလူလူမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Honolulu (Hawaii)”
  • Catalan: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Catalan: “Honolulu”
  • Cebuano: “Honolulu”
  • Central Bikol: “Honolulu”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھۆنۆلولو”
  • Chamorro: “Honolulu”
  • Chavacano: “Honolulu”
  • Chinese: “Honolulu”
  • Chinese: “屏蔽之灣”
  • Chinese: “屏蔽灣”
  • Chinese: “檀香山 / 火奴鲁鲁”
  • Chinese: “檀香山”
  • Chinese: “火奴魯魯”
  • Chinese: “火奴鲁鲁”
  • Cornish: “Honolulu”
  • Corsican: “Honolulu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gonolulu”
  • Croatian: “Honolulu, Havaji”
  • Croatian: “Honolulu”
  • Czech: “Honolulu”
  • Dagbani: “Honolulu”
  • Danish: “Honolulu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Honolulu”
  • Dutch: “Honolulu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هونولولو”
  • Esperanto: “Honolulo”
  • Esperanto: “Honolulu”
  • Esperanto: “Honoluluo”
  • Estonian: “Honolulu”
  • Extremaduran: “Honolulu”
  • Faroese: “Honolulu”
  • Finnish: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Finnish: “Honolulu”
  • French: “Honolulu”
  • Friulian: “Honolulu”
  • Galician: “Honolulu”
  • Galician: “Honolulú”
  • Georgian: “ჰონოლულუ”
  • German: “Honolulu”
  • German: “Urban Honolulu”
  • Gilaki: “هؤنؤلۊلۊ (هاوايي)”
  • Gilaki: “هؤنؤلۊلۊ”
  • Gothic: “𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌿𐌻𐌿”
  • Greek: “Χονολουλού”
  • Gujarati: “હોનોલુલુ”
  • Haitian: “Onloulou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Honolulu”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thàn-hiông-sân”
  • Hausa: “Honolulu”
  • Hawaiian: “Honolulu, Hawaiʻi”
  • Hawaiian: “Honolulu”
  • Hebrew: “הונולולו”
  • Hindi: “होनोलूलू”
  • Hungarian: “Honolulu”
  • Icelandic: “Honolulu”
  • Ido: “Honolulu”
  • Iloko: “Honolulu”
  • Inari Sami: “Honolulu”
  • Indonesian: “Honolulu”
  • Interlingua: “Honolulu”
  • Interlingue: “Honolulu”
  • Irish: “Honolúlú, Haváí”
  • Irish: “Honolúlú”
  • Italian: “Honolulu”
  • Japanese: “ホノルル”
  • Kabyle: “Honolulu”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Honolulu”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊನೊಲುಲು”
  • Kazakh: “Гонолулу”
  • Kikuyu: “Honolulu”
  • Kirghiz: “Гонолулу”
  • Komering: “Honolulu”
  • Korean: “호놀룰루”
  • Kurdish: “Honolulu”
  • Ladin: “Honolulu”
  • Ladino: “Honolulu”
  • Latin: “Honolulu”
  • Latin: “Honolulum”
  • Latvian: “Honolulu”
  • Ligurian: “Honolulu”
  • Literary Chinese: “檀香山”
  • Lithuanian: “Honolulu”
  • Lombard: “Honolulu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Honolulu”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Honolulu”
  • Macedonian: “Хонолулу”
  • Malagasy: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Malagasy: “Honolulu”
  • Malay: “Honolulu”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോണോലുലു, ഹവായ്”
  • Maltese: “Honolulu”
  • Maori: “Honoruru”
  • Marathi: “होनोलुलु”
  • Mazanderani: “هونولولو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tàng-hiŏng-săng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Honolulu”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰონოლულუ”
  • Mirandese: “Honolulu”
  • Mongolian: “Хонолулу”
  • Nauru: “Honolulu”
  • Neapolitan: “Honolulu”
  • Nepali: “होनोलुलु”
  • Newari: “हःनालुलु”
  • Newari: “होनालुलु (हवाई)”
  • Newari: “होनालुलु”
  • Newari: “होनोलुलु (हवाई)”
  • Newari: “होनोलुलु, हवाई”
  • Newari: “होनोलुलु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Honolulu”
  • Northern Luri: “هونولولو”
  • Northern Sami: “Honolulu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Honolulu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Honolulu”
  • Norwegian: “Honolulu”
  • Novial: “Honolulu”
  • Nyanja: “Honolulu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Honolulu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Smyltehæfen”
  • Oriya: “ହନଲୁଲୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Гонолулу”
  • Pali: “होनालुलु”
  • Pampanga: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Pampanga: “Honolulu”
  • Papiamento: “Honolulu”
  • Pedi: “Honolulu”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Honolulu”
  • Persian: “هونولولو”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Honolulu”
  • Polish: “Honolulu”
  • Portuguese: “Honolulu”
  • Pushto: “هونولولو”
  • Quechua: “Honolulu”
  • Romanian: “Honolulu”
  • Romansh: “Honolulu”
  • Russian: “Гонолулу”
  • Samogitian: “Honolulu”
  • Sanskrit: “हानलूलू”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱳᱱᱳᱞᱩᱞᱩ”
  • Sardinian: “Honolulu”
  • Scots: “Honolulu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Honolulu”
  • Serbian: “Хонолулу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Honolulu”
  • Sicilian: “Honolulu”
  • Silesian: “Honolulu”
  • Sindhi: “هونولولو”
  • Sinhala: “හොනලුලු”
  • Sinhala: “හොනොලුලු, හවායි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Honolulu”
  • Slovak: “Honolulu”
  • Slovenian: “Honolulu, Havaji”
  • Slovenian: “Honolulu”
  • Somali: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Somali: “Honolulu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هونولولو”
  • Spanish: “Honolulu”
  • Spanish: “Honolulú”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Honolulu”
  • Swahili: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Swahili: “Honolulu”
  • Swedish: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Swedish: “Honolulu”
  • Tagalog: “Honolulu”
  • Tajik: “Гонолулу”
  • Tajik: “Ҳонолулу”
  • Tajik: “Ҳунулулу”
  • Talysh: “Honolulu”
  • Tamil: “ஹானலூலூ”
  • Tamil: “ஹொனலுலு”
  • Tatar: “Гонолулу”
  • Tatar: “Һонолулу”
  • Telugu: “హోనోలూలు”
  • Thai: “โฮโนลูลู”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ནོ་ལུ་ལུ།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Honolulu”
  • Turkish: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Turkish: “Honolulu”
  • Turkmen: “Honolulu”
  • Ukrainian: “Гонолулу”
  • Urdu: “ہونولولو، ہوائی”
  • Urdu: “ہونولولو”
  • Uzbek: “Gonolulu”
  • Venetian: “Honolulu”
  • Veps: “Gonolulu”
  • Vietnamese: “Honolulu, Hạ Uy Di”
  • Vietnamese: “Honolulu, Hawaii”
  • Vietnamese: “Honolulu”
  • Vlaams: “Honolulu”
  • Vlax Romani: “Honolulu”
  • Volapük: “Honolulu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Honolulu”
  • Welsh: “Honolulu”
  • Western Frisian: “Honolulu”
  • Western Frisian: “Honolûlû”
  • Western Mari: “Гонолулу”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہونولولو”
  • Wu Chinese: “檀香山”
  • Yakut: “Һонолулу”
  • Yiddish: “האנאלולו”
  • Yoruba: “Honolulu”
  • Yue Chinese: “檀香山”
  • “Honolulu”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Honolulu”. Photo: Alfred Adler, CC BY-SA 3.0.