Yap
Yap traditionally refers to an island group located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, a part of Yap State. The name "Yap" in recent years has come to also refer to the state within the Federated States of Micronesia, inclusive of the Yap Main Islands and its various outer islands, the Yap Neighboring Islands.
- Type: Island
- Description: island group in the Federated States of Micronesia
- Also known as: “Arricifes Carolina”, “BEQUEST WW2”, “Eap”, “Guap”, “Island of Stone Money”, “VOCALIST WW2”, “Waqab”, “Yap Atoll”, “Yap Group”, “Yap Islands”, “Yapa”, and “Yappu-tō”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yap Living History Museum.
Yap Living History Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colonia.
Colonia
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Yap
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
9.538° or 9° 32′ 17″ north
Longitude
138.098° or 138° 5′ 53″ east
Population
7,390
Elevation
173 metres (568 feet)
Open location code
6QXWG3QX+56
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Yap from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yap” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ياب”
- Asturian: “Islles Yap”
- Asturian: “Wa’ab”
- Asturian: “Waqab”
- Asturian: “Yap”
- Basque: “Yap”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Яп”
- Belarusian: “Яп”
- Bengali: “ইয়াপ”
- Bulgarian: “Яп”
- Catalan: “Yap”
- Cebuano: “Yap Islands”
- Chinese: “雅浦”
- Chinese: “雅浦岛”
- Chinese: “雅浦島”
- Chinese: “雅蒲”
- Chinese: “雅蒲岛”
- Chinese: “雅蒲島”
- Czech: “Yap”
- Danish: “Yap”
- Dutch: “Yap”
- Esperanto: “Yap”
- Estonian: “Yap”
- Estonian: “Yapi saar”
- Finnish: “Yap”
- French: “Îles Yap”
- French: “Yap”
- Galician: “Yap”
- Georgian: “იაპის კუნძულები”
- German: “Yap Proper”
- German: “Yap-Inseln”
- German: “Yap”
- German: “Jap-Inseln” (historical)
- Greek: “Γιαπ”
- Greek: “Γουακάμπ”
- Gujarati: “યૅપ”
- Hebrew: “יאפ”
- Hindi: “याप द्वीप”
- Hindi: “याप”
- Hungarian: “Yap”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Yap”
- Italian: “Yap”
- Japanese: “ヤップ島”
- Kabardian: “Яп”
- Kannada: “ಯಾಪ್”
- Korean: “야프 제도”
- Korean: “야프섬”
- Korean: “야프제도”
- Latvian: “Japa”
- Lithuanian: “Japas”
- Lithuanian: “Japo sala”
- Macedonian: “Јап”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Yap”
- Malay: “Yap”
- Marathi: “यॅप”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yap”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yapøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yap”
- Norwegian: “Yap”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Iap”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yap”
- Persian: “یاپ”
- Polish: “Jap”
- Polish: “Yap”
- Portuguese: “Yap”
- Romanian: “Yap”
- Russian: “Яп”
- Serbian: “Јап”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jap”
- Sinhala: “යප්”
- Slovenian: “Yap”
- Spanish: “Wa’ab”
- Spanish: “Yap”
- Swedish: “Yap”
- Swedish: “Yapöarna”
- Tamil: “யாப்”
- Telugu: “యాప్”
- Thai: “แยป”
- Turkish: “Waqab”
- Turkish: “Yap Adası”
- Turkish: “Yap, Mikronezya”
- Turkish: “Yap”
- Ukrainian: “Яп”
- Urdu: “یاپ”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Yap”
- Vietnamese: “Yap”
- Yue Chinese: “雅蒲島”
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