Malaita

Malaita is the primary island of in . Malaita is the most populous island of the Solomon Islands, with a population of 161,832 as of 2021, or more than a third of the entire national population.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Solomon Islands
  • Also known as: Isla de Ramos”, “Mala Island”, “Mala Mara”, “Malaita Island”, “Malanta”, “Malayta”, “Mwala”, “Ngwala”, and “Terra des Arsacides

Malaita

Latitude
-9.01748° or 9° 1′ 3″ south
Longitude
160.95392° or 160° 57′ 14″ east
Population
140,000
Elevation
850 metres (2,789 feet)
Open location code
6V22XXM3+2H
Geo­Names ID
2106553
Wiki­data ID
Q641568
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Malaita” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ماليتا
  • Asturian: Islla Malaita
  • Basque: Malaita
  • Belarusian: Востраў Малаіта
  • Belarusian: Малаіта
  • Bulgarian: Малаита
  • Catalan: Malaita
  • Cebuano: Malaita (pulo sa Kapupud-ang Solomon)
  • Cebuano: Malaita
  • Chinese: 馬萊塔島
  • Chinese: 马莱塔岛
  • Croatian: Malaita
  • Czech: Malaita
  • Czech: Ostrov Malaita
  • Dutch: Malaita
  • Egyptian Arabic: ماليتا
  • Esperanto: Malaita
  • Estonian: Malaita
  • French: Malaita
  • Galician: Malaita
  • Georgian: მალაიტა
  • German: Malaita
  • Hebrew: מלייטה
  • Indonesian: Malaita
  • Italian: Malaita
  • Japanese: マライタ島
  • Japanese: マレータ島
  • Korean: 말라이타 섬
  • Korean: 말라이타
  • Korean: 말라이타섬
  • Korean: 말레이타 섬
  • Korean: 말레이타섬
  • Latin: Malaita
  • Latvian: Malaita
  • Lithuanian: Malaita
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Malaita
  • Norwegian: Malaita
  • Occitan (post 1500): Malaita
  • Persian: مالائیتا
  • Polish: Malaita
  • Portuguese: Malaita
  • Russian: Малаита
  • Spanish: Isla Malaita
  • Spanish: Malaita
  • Swedish: Malaita
  • Ukrainian: Малаїта
  • Urdu: مالایتا
  • Vietnamese: Đảo Malaita
  • Western Mari: Малаита ошмаоты

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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 “Malaita”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.