Failaka Island
Failaka Island is a Kuwaiti Island in the Persian Gulf. The island is 20 km off the coast of Kuwait City in the Persian Gulf. Failaka Island is located 50 km southeast of the spot where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into the Persian Gulf.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: Kuwaiti island
- Also known as: “Faijlaka Island”, “Failaka”, “Failakah Island”, “Failicha”, “Faylakah”, “Fēlaka ”, “Fulaykā’”, “Jazīrat al-Falakah”, “Jazirat Failaka”, “Jazīrat Failaka”, “Jazīrat Falakā”, “Jazīrat Faylakah”, and “Pheleechi”
Failaka Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Capital Governorate, Kuwait, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.43361° or 29° 26′ 1″ northLongitude
48.33531° or 48° 20′ 7″ eastPopulation
147Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
7HXCC8MP+C4OpenStreetMap ID
way 12864227OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Failaka Island” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ishulli Failaka”
- Arabic: “جزيرة فيلكا”
- Arabic: “جَزِيرَة فَيْلَكَا”
- Arabic: “جزيرة فيلكة”
- Arabic: “فيلچة”
- Arabic: “فيلكا”
- Arabic: “فيلكة”
- Azerbaijani: “Faylaka adası”
- Basque: “Failaka uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Файлака”
- Catalan: “illa Failaka”
- Cebuano: “Jazīrat Faylakā”
- Chinese: “法伊拉卡島”
- Chinese: “菲拉卡岛”
- Croatian: “Failaka”
- Czech: “Failaka”
- Czech: “Fajlaka”
- Dutch: “Failaka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيلكا”
- Finnish: “Failaka”
- Finnish: “Faylaka”
- French: “Failaka”
- French: “Faïlaqa”
- French: “Ile de Failaka”
- French: “île de Failaka”
- French: “Île de failaka”
- French: “Île de Failaka”
- German: “Failaka”
- Hebrew: “האי פילכה”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Failaka”
- Italian: “Failaka”
- Japanese: “ファイラカ島”
- Korean: “파일라카섬”
- Lithuanian: “Failaka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Failaka”
- Persian: “فیلکا”
- Persian: “فیلکه”
- Polish: “Dżazirat Fajlaka”
- Polish: “Failaka”
- Portuguese: “Failaka”
- Russian: “Файлака (остров)”
- Russian: “Файлака”
- Serbian: “Острво Фајлака”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Failaka”
- Spanish: “Isla Failaka”
- Swedish: “Faylaka”
- Swedish: “Jazirat Faylaka”
- Thai: “เกาะฟัยละกา”
- Turkish: “Feyleke”
- Ukrainian: “Файлака”
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