Pate Island
Pate Island is located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya, to which it belongs. It is the largest island in the Lamu Archipelago, which lie between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga in the former Coast Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kenya
- Also known as: “Pate sultanate” and “Patta”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Siyu and Pate.
Siyu
Village
Photo: Mainakiarie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Siyu is a settlement on the north coast of Pate Island, within the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya's Coast Province. The age of Siyu is not known, but it might date from the 13th century.
Pate
Village
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Pate is a village, which is situated 8 km southwest of Pate Island.
Faza
Town
Faza is a small town on the North coast on Pate Island, within the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya's former Coast Province. Faza was known by the name of Ampaza by the Portuguese and dates back at least to the 14th century. Faza is situated 8 km northeast of Pate Island.
Pate Island
- Categories: historical country and landform
- Location: Lamu, Coastal Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Pate Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة باتي”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بيت”
- Basque: “Pate (uhartea)”
- Basque: “Pate”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Патэ”
- Belarusian: “Патэ”
- Catalan: “Pate”
- Cebuano: “Pate Island”
- Chinese: “帕泰島”
- Czech: “Pate”
- Czech: “Paté”
- Danish: “Pate”
- Dutch: “Pate Island”
- Finnish: “Pate”
- French: “Pate (île)”
- French: “Pate”
- French: “Paté”
- Georgian: “პატე”
- German: “Pate”
- Greek: “Νήσος Πατέ”
- Italian: “Pate”
- Japanese: “パーテー島”
- Japanese: “パテ島”
- Japanese: “ベイト島”
- Japanese: “ペイト島”
- Korean: “파테섬”
- Lithuanian: “Patė”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Pate”
- Russian: “Пате”
- Spanish: “isla Pate”
- Spanish: “Isla Pate”
- Swahili: “Pate”
- Swedish: “Pate”
- Telugu: “పాటె సుల్తానేట్”
- Ukrainian: “Пате”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pate Island”. Photo: Mainakiarie, CC BY-SA 3.0.