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Makira

The island of Makira is the largest island of in . It is third most populous of the Solomon Islands after and , with a population of 55,126 as of 2020.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Solomon Islands
  • Also known as: “Arossi”, “Bauro Island”, “Makira Island”, “San Christóbal Island”, “San Christoval”, “San Cirstóbal”, “San Cristobal”, and “San Cristoval”

Makira

Latitude
-10.63415° or 10° 38′ 3″ south
Longitude
161.84823° or 161° 50′ 54″ east
Population
33,500
Elevation
249 metres (817 feet)
Open location code
5VX39R8X+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 339760989
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2178514
Wiki­data ID
Q714573
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Satellite Map

Discover Makira from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Makira” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماكيرا”
  • Asturian: “Makira”
  • Bengali: “মাকিরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Сан Кристобал (остров)”
  • Bulgarian: “Сан Кристобал”
  • Cebuano: “San Cristobal”
  • Chinese: “馬基拉島”
  • Chinese: “马基拉岛”
  • Czech: “Makira”
  • Czech: “San Cristobal”
  • Czech: “San Cristóbal”
  • Danish: “Makira”
  • Dutch: “Makira”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماكيرا”
  • Esperanto: “Makira”
  • Estonian: “Makira”
  • Finnish: “Makira”
  • French: “Île San Cristóbal”
  • French: “Makira”
  • French: “San Cristobal”
  • French: “San Cristóbal”
  • Galician: “Makira-Ulawa”
  • Galician: “Makira”
  • Georgian: “მაკირა”
  • German: “Makira”
  • German: “San Cristobal”
  • Greek: “Μακίρα”
  • Gujarati: “મકિરા”
  • Hindi: “मकीरा”
  • Indonesian: “Makira”
  • Italian: “Makira”
  • Japanese: “サンクリストバル島”
  • Japanese: “マキラ島”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕಿ ರಾ”
  • Korean: “마키라섬”
  • Latvian: “Makira”
  • Latvian: “Sankristobala”
  • Lithuanian: “Makira”
  • Malay: “Makira”
  • Marathi: “मिकरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Makira”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Makira”
  • Polish: “Makira”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de São Cristóvão”
  • Portuguese: “Makira”
  • Russian: “Макира”
  • Russian: “Сан-Кристобаль”
  • Sinhala: “මකිරා”
  • Spanish: “Makira”
  • Swedish: “Makira”
  • Tamil: “மகிறா”
  • Telugu: “మకీరా”
  • Thai: “มาคีระ”
  • Turkish: “Makira”
  • Ukrainian: “Макіра”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Крістобаль”
  • Urdu: “ماکیرا”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Makira”
  • Western Mari: “Макира”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Makira”. Photo: Nash Belarus, CC BY-SA 3.0.