Socotra
Socotra is an archipelago consisting mainly of four main islands and two smaller rocky islets in the Indian Ocean, an offshore territory of Yemen, near the Horn of Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: main island of Socotra Archipelago in the Guardafui Channel
- Also known as: “Jazīrat Suquţrá”, “Saqatri”, “Saqatrī”, “Socotra Island”, “Soqotra Island”, “Sukuṭrā”, “Suqatra”, and “Suquţrá”
Socotra
- Category: landform
- Location: Hidaybu district, Soqatra Governorate, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.4581° or 12° 27′ 29″ northLongitude
53.8502° or 53° 51′ 1″ eastPopulation
60,000Elevation
762 metres (2,500 feet)IATA airport code
SCTUnited Nations Location Code
YE SCTOpen location code
7H4MFV52+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 1216810344
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Socotra” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sokotra”
- Amharic: “ሱቁጥራ”
- Arabic: “جزيرة سقطرى”
- Arabic: “ساقطْري”
- Arabic: “سقطرة”
- Arabic: “سقطره”
- Arabic: “سقطـرى”
- Arabic: “سقطرى”
- Arabic: “سوقطرة”
- Aragonese: “Socotra”
- Armenian: “Սոկոտրա”
- Asturian: “Socotora”
- Asturian: “Socotra”
- Azerbaijani: “Sokotra adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Sokotra”
- Balinese: “Socotra”
- Basque: “Sokotora”
- Basque: “Sokotra”
- Belarusian: “Сакотра”
- Bengali: “সুকাত্রা”
- Bosnian: “Sokotra”
- Breton: “Enezeg Sokotra”
- Breton: “Sokotra”
- Bulgarian: “Сокотра”
- Catalan: “Socotora”
- Catalan: “Socotra”
- Catalan: “Sokotra”
- Catalan: “Soqotra”
- Catalan: “Sukutra”
- Catalan: “Suqutra”
- Cebuano: “Socotra”
- Central Kurdish: “سۆکۆتڕا”
- Chinese: “索科特拉岛”
- Chinese: “索科特拉島”
- Croatian: “Sokotra”
- Czech: “Sokotra”
- Danish: “Socotra”
- Dimli (individual language): “Soqotra”
- Dutch: “Socotra”
- Esperanto: “Sokotoro”
- Esperanto: “Sokotra”
- Esperanto: “Sokotro”
- Esperanto: “Sukutra”
- Estonian: “Sokotra”
- Finnish: “Socotra”
- Finnish: “Sokotra”
- Finnish: “Sukutra”
- Finnish: “Suqutra”
- French: “Île de Socotra”
- French: “Île de Soqotra”
- French: “Socotora”
- French: “Socotra”
- French: “Suqutra”
- Galician: “Socotra”
- Georgian: “სოკოტრა”
- German: “Socotra”
- German: “Sokotra”
- Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Σοκότρα”
- Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος της Σοκότρα”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Σοκότρα”
- Greek: “Νήσος Σοκότρα”
- Greek: “Σοκότρα”
- Hebrew: “ארכיפלג סוקוטרה”
- Hebrew: “סוקוטרה”
- Hindi: “सुक़तरा”
- Hindi: “सुक़ुत्रा”
- Hindi: “सुक़ूत्रा”
- Hungarian: “Szokotra”
- Icelandic: “Sokotra”
- Ido: “Sokotra”
- Indonesian: “Socotra”
- Indonesian: “Sokotra”
- Irish: “Socatra”
- Italian: “Socotra”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Sokochra”
- Japanese: “スクトゥラ島”
- Japanese: “ソコトラ島”
- Japanese: “ソコトラ諸島”
- Kazakh: “Сокотра қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Сокотра”
- Komering: “Pulau Soqotra”
- Korean: “소코트라 섬”
- Korean: “소코트라”
- Korean: “소코트라섬”
- Latvian: “Sokotra”
- Lithuanian: “Sokotra”
- Macedonian: “Сокотра”
- Malagasy: “Sôkôtra”
- Malay: “Socotra”
- Malayalam: “സൊകോത്ര”
- Maltese: “Socotra”
- Maltese: “Sokotra”
- Maltese: “Suqatra”
- Mazanderani: “سقطرا”
- Mingrelian: “სოკოტრა”
- Mongolian: “Сокотра ольтриг”
- Northern Luri: “سوقوطرا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Socotra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sokotra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soqotra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Socotra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sokotra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Soqotra”
- Norwegian: “Sokotra”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Socotra”
- Persian: “جزایر سقطری”
- Persian: “جزایر سوکوترا”
- Persian: “سقطرا”
- Persian: “سقطری”
- Piemontese: “Socòtra”
- Polish: “Archipelag Sokotra”
- Polish: “Sokotra”
- Portuguese: “Socotora”
- Portuguese: “Socotorá”
- Portuguese: “Socotra”
- Portuguese: “Socutra”
- Portuguese: “Soqotra”
- Portuguese: “Suqutrah”
- Romanian: “Socotra”
- Russian: “Сокотра”
- Serbian: “Сокотра”
- Serbian: “سقطرى”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sokotra”
- Slovak: “Sokotra”
- Slovenian: “Sakatri”
- Slovenian: “Sokotra”
- Somali: “Soqotra”
- Spanish: “Isla de Socotora”
- Spanish: “Socotora”
- Spanish: “Socotra”
- Sundanese: “Sokotra”
- Swahili: “Sokotra”
- Swedish: “Socotra”
- Swedish: “Sokotra”
- Swedish: “Soqotra”
- Swedish: “Suqutra”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Socotra”
- Tagalog: “Socotora”
- Tagalog: “Socotra”
- Tagalog: “Sokotora”
- Tagalog: “Sokotra”
- Tagalog: “Soqotra”
- Tagalog: “Soqutra”
- Tagalog: “Suqotra”
- Tagalog: “Suqutra”
- Tagalog: “Suquṭra”
- Tamil: “சுகுத்திரா”
- Tamil: “சோகோட்ரா”
- Telugu: “సొకొట్రా”
- Thai: “โซโคตรา”
- Turkish: “Haghier Dağları”
- Turkish: “Socotra Adası”
- Turkish: “Socotra”
- Turkish: “Socotran”
- Turkish: “Socotri”
- Turkish: “Sokotra Adası”
- Turkish: “Sokotra”
- Turkish: “Sokotri”
- Turkish: “Soqotra”
- Turkish: “Soqotran”
- Turkish: “Sukatra”
- Turkish: “Sukutra”
- Turkish: “Suqutra”
- Ukrainian: “Сокотра”
- Urdu: “Socotra”
- Urdu: “سقطری”
- Vietnamese: “Socotra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Socotra”
- Welsh: “Socotra”
- Western Armenian: “Սոքոթրա կղզին”
- Western Panjabi: “سقوطرا”
- Western Panjabi: “سقوطرہ”
- Wu Chinese: “索科特拉岛”
- Yoruba: “Socotra”
- Yue Chinese: “索科特拉島”
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