Palikir
Palikir is the capital city of the Federated States of Micronesia located in the western Pacific Ocean. A town of slightly under 5,000 residents, it is part of the larger Sokehs municipality, which had a population of 6,964 as of 2024, out of the nation's total population of 106,487.- Type: Town with 6,940 residents
- Description: capital of Federated States of Micronesia
- Also known as: “Pallikir”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kolonia.
Kolonia
Photo: Gargoylepni, Public domain.
Kolonia is a city on the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. The municipality of Kolonia has a population of around 6,500 people, but it is the center of an urban area of approximately 13,000 people, including the nearby suburbs of Sokehs Island, Nett and Porakied village.
Palikir
- Categories: city, federal capital, and locality
- Location: Sokehs, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.92074° or 6° 55′ 15″ northLongitude
158.16271° or 158° 9′ 46″ eastPopulation
6,940Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)Open location code
6RRWW5C7+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 703902171OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2081986Wikidata ID
Q42751
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Satellite Map
Discover Palikir from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Palikir” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Palikir”
- Amharic: “ፓሊኪር”
- Arabic: “باليكير”
- Armenian: “Պալիկիր”
- Asturian: “Palikir”
- Azerbaijani: “Palikir”
- Balinese: “Palikir”
- Bashkir: “Паликир”
- Basque: “Palikir”
- Belarusian: “Палікір”
- Bengali: “পালিকির”
- Bosnian: “Palikir”
- Breton: “Palikir”
- Bulgarian: “Паликир”
- Catalan: “Palikir”
- Cebuano: “Palikir - National Government Center”
- Cebuano: “Palikir”
- Central Bikol: “Palikir”
- Chechen: “Паликир”
- Chinese: “Palikir”
- Chinese: “帕利基尔”
- Chinese: “帕利基爾”
- Chinese: “帕立克爾”
- Croatian: “Palikir”
- Czech: “Palikir”
- Danish: “Palakir”
- Danish: “Palikir”
- Dutch: “Palikir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باليكير”
- Esperanto: “Palikiro”
- Estonian: “Palikir”
- Fiji Hindi: “Palikir”
- Finnish: “Palikir”
- French: “Palikir”
- Galician: “Palikir”
- Georgian: “პალიკირი”
- German: “Palikir”
- Greek: “Παλικίρ”
- Greek: “Παλιρίκ”
- Haitian: “Paliki”
- Hakka Chinese: “Palikir”
- Hebrew: “פליקיר”
- Hindi: “पालिकिर”
- Hindi: “पेलिकियर”
- Hindi: “पेलिकिर”
- Hungarian: “Palikir”
- Icelandic: “Palikír”
- Ido: “Palikir”
- Indonesian: “Palikir”
- Interlingue: “Palikir”
- Irish: “Palikir”
- Irish: “Pálikír”
- Italian: “Palikir”
- Italian: “Sokehs”
- Japanese: “パリキール”
- Kazakh: “Паликир”
- Kinyarwanda: “Palikir”
- Kirghiz: “Паликир”
- Korean: “팔리키르”
- Kotava: “Palikir”
- Latin: “Palicrum”
- Latin: “Palikir”
- Latvian: “Palikir”
- Latvian: “Palikira”
- Ligurian: “Palikir”
- Lithuanian: “Palikiras”
- Lithuanian: “Palikyras”
- Lombard: “Palikir”
- Low German: “Palikir”
- Luxembourgish: “Palikir”
- Macedonian: “Паликир”
- Malagasy: “Palikir”
- Malay: “Palikir”
- Malayalam: “പാലികിർ”
- Marathi: “पालिकिर”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Palikir”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palikir”
- Minangkabau: “Palikir”
- Mingrelian: “პალიკირი”
- Moroccan Arabic: “پاليكير”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palikir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palikir”
- Norwegian: “Palikir”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Palikir”
- Ossetian: “Паликир”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਲੀਕਰ”
- Persian: “پالیکیر”
- Polish: “Palikir”
- Portuguese: “Palikir”
- Portuguese: “Paliquir”
- Pushto: “پالیکیر”
- Romanian: “Palikir”
- Russian: “Паликир”
- Sardinian: “Palikir”
- Scots: “Palikir”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Palikir”
- Serbian: “Паликир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palikir”
- Shona: “Palikir”
- Sindhi: “پاليڪر”
- Sinhala: “පලිකීර්, මයික්රොනීසියා ගිවිසුම් ජනපද”
- Slovak: “Palikir”
- Slovenian: “Palikir”
- Spanish: “Palikir”
- Swahili: “Palikir”
- Swedish: “Palikir”
- Tagalog: “Palikir”
- Tahitian: “Palikir”
- Tajik: “Паликир”
- Tamil: “பலிகீர்”
- Tatar: “Паликир”
- Telugu: “పాలీకీర్”
- Thai: “ปาลิเกอร์”
- Thai: “ปาลีกีร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Palikir”
- Turkish: “Palikir”
- Ukrainian: “Палікір”
- Urdu: “Palikir”
- Urdu: “پالیکیر”
- Uzbek: “Palikir”
- Veps: “Palikir”
- Vietnamese: “Palikir”
- Waray (Philippines): “Palikir”
- Welsh: “Palikir”
- Western Armenian: “Փալիքիր”
- Western Frisian: “Palikir”
- Wu Chinese: “帕利基爾”
- Yakut: “Паликир”
- Yue Chinese: “帕利基爾”
- Zulu: “i-Palikir”
- “ma tomo Paliki”
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