Malaita
Malaita is the primary island of Malaita Province in Solomon Islands. Malaita is the second most populous island of the Solomon Islands after Guadalcanal, with a population of 172,740 as of 2019, or slightly less than a quarter of the entire national population.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- 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
- Category: landform
- Location: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
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Wikidata ID
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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”
- Finnish: “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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