Kirakira
Kirakira, also spelt Kira Kira, is the provincial capital of the Makira-Ulawa Province in Solomon Islands. Kirakira is located on the north coast of Makira, the largest island of the province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,110 residents
- Description: capital city of Makira-Ulawa, Solomon Islands
- Also known as: “Kirakira, Solomon Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kirakira Airport.
Kirakira Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: RH D 22, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kirakira Airport is an airport located at Kirakira on the island of Makira, part of the Makira-Ulawa Province in the Solomon Islands. It is also known as Ngorangora Airstrip and was constructed in the late 1950s. Kirakira Airport is situated 2½ km west of Kirakira.
Kirakira
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bauro Central, Makira-Ulawa Province, Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-10.4569° or 10° 27′ 25″ southLongitude
161.92017° or 161° 55′ 13″ eastPopulation
2,110Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)IATA airport code
IRAOpen location code
5VX3GWVC+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 339681618OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
Discover Kirakira from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Mari—“Kirakira” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Kirakira”
- Bulgarian: “Киракира”
- Cebuano: “Kirakira”
- Chinese: “基拉基拉”
- Croatian: “Kirakira”
- Czech: “Kirakira”
- Dutch: “Kirakira”
- French: “Kirakira”
- Galician: “Kirakira”
- German: “Kirakira”
- Hebrew: “קיראקירה”
- Italian: “Kirakira”
- Japanese: “キラキラ”
- Lithuanian: “Kirakira”
- Nauru: “Kirakira”
- Persian: “کیراکیرا”
- Polish: “Kira Kira”
- Polish: “Kirakira”
- Portuguese: “Kirakira”
- Russian: “Киракира”
- Sinhala: “කිරකිරා, සොලමන් දූපත්”
- Slovenian: “Kirakira”
- Spanish: “Kirakira”
- Thai: “คิราคิรา”
- Ukrainian: “Кіракіра”
- Urdu: “کیراکیرا”
- Vietnamese: “Kirakira”
- Western Mari: “Киракира”
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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 “Kirakira”. Photo: RH D 22, CC BY-SA 3.0.