Corn Islands

The Corn Islands are two in the about 70 kilometres off the coast of Central America, constituting one of 12 municipalities of the of Nicaragua.
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  • Type: island group with 6,630 residents
  • Description: island group in the Caribbean Sea and identical with the municipality in South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Corn Islands Municipality”, “Municipality of Corn Islands”, and “The Corn Islands”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Big Corn Island and Corn Island Airport.

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or Great Corn Island lies approximately 50 miles off the . Great Corn Island was colonized by people who escaped slavery in Jamaica, and most native islanders have more in common culturally with other English-speaking Caribbean islands than they do with the mainland of Nicaragua.

Aerodrome
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Corn Island International Airport is a civil-military public that serves Great Corn Island in the of and located in the island's downtown area known locally as Brig Bay, The airport…

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Corn Islands

Latitude
12.177° or 12° 10′ 37″ north
Longitude
-83.0455° or 83° 2′ 44″ west
Population
6,630
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
764R5XG3+QQ
Geo­Names ID
3620265
Wiki­data ID
Q21111
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Corn Islands” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Islas del Maíz”
  • Basque: “Corn Islands”
  • Basque: “Islas del Maíz (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Islas del Maíz”
  • Basque: “Islas del Maízko udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Маіс (архіпелаг)”
  • Belarusian: “Маіс”
  • Cebuano: “Corn Island nga Munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Corn Island”
  • Cebuano: “Islas del Maíz”
  • Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Corn Island”
  • Chinese: “Corn Islands”
  • Chinese: “科恩群岛”
  • Chinese: “马伊斯群岛（市镇）”
  • Chinese: “马伊斯群岛”
  • Chinese: “马伊斯群岛市镇”
  • Croatian: “Kukuruzno otočje”
  • Czech: “Corn Islands”
  • Dutch: “Corn Island”
  • Dutch: “Corn Islands (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Corn Islands”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Corn Islands”
  • Dutch: “Islas del Maíz”
  • Dutch: “Maiseilanden”
  • Dutch: “Maïseilanden”
  • Esperanto: “Maizaj Insuloj”
  • Finnish: “Maissisaaret”
  • French: “Corn Islands”
  • French: “îles du Maïs (municipalité)”
  • French: “îles du Maïs”
  • French: “Îles du Maïs”
  • French: “Municipalité des îles du Maïs”
  • Georgian: “მაისის კუნძულები”
  • Georgian: “მარცვლეულის კუნძულები”
  • Georgian: “სიმინდის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Corn Islands (Gemeinde)”
  • German: “Corn Islands”
  • German: “Gemeinde Corn Islands”
  • German: “Gemeinde von Corn Islands”
  • German: “Islas del Maíz”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Κορν Άιλαντ”
  • Greek: “Κορν Άιλαντ (δήμος)”
  • Greek: “Κορν Άιλαντ”
  • Hebrew: “איי קורן”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Jagung”
  • Italian: “Comune di Corn Island”
  • Italian: “Corn Island (comune)”
  • Italian: “Corn Island”
  • Italian: “Isole del Mais”
  • Japanese: “コーン・アイランド”
  • Japanese: “コーンアイランド”
  • Japanese: “コーン諸島（自治体）”
  • Japanese: “コーン諸島”
  • Japanese: “コーン諸島自治体”
  • Kazakh: “Маис”
  • Korean: “콘 제도”
  • Latvian: “Maīsa salas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kukurūzų salos”
  • Luxembourgish: “Corn Islands”
  • Luxembourgish: “Islas del Maíz”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Corn Islands”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Corn Islands chhiūⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Corn Islands”
  • Northern Frisian: “Corn Islands”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Corn Island”
  • Polish: “Corn Islands (gmina)”
  • Polish: “Corn Islands”
  • Polish: “Gmina Corn Islands”
  • Portuguese: “Corn Islands”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas de Maíz”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas do Milho (município)”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas do Milho”
  • Portuguese: “Município das Ilhas do Milho”
  • Russian: “Ислас-дель-Маис (муниципалитет)”
  • Russian: “Маис (острова)”
  • Russian: “Маис”
  • Russian: “Муниципалитет Ислас-дель-Маис”
  • Slovak: “Kukuričné ostrovy”
  • Spanish: “Corn Island (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Corn Island”
  • Spanish: “Las Islas del Maíz”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Corn Island”
  • Swedish: “Corn Island (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Corn Island kommun”
  • Swedish: “Corn Island”
  • Swedish: “Corn Islands”
  • Turkish: “Mısır Adaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Кукурудзяні острови”
  • Urdu: “کارن جزائر”
  • Vietnamese: “Corn Island (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Corn Island”
  • Vietnamese: “Corn Islands”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Corn Islandsñ”
  • “Corn Islands”
  • “Las Islas del Maíz”

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