Leeward Islands
The Leeward Islands are the western part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France, in the South Pacific Ocean. They lie south of the Line Islands, east of the Cooks and north of the Austral Islands.- Archipelago with about 31,800 residents
- Description: western group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia
- Also known as“Circonscription administrative des Îles Sous-le-Vent”“Iles Sous-le-Vent”“Sous de Vent”
- Category: administrative subdivision of French Polynesia
- Location
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Latitude
-16.6667° or 16° 40′ south
Longitude
-151.5° or 151° 30′ west
Open location code
53MC8GM2+82
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Leeward Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Benedewindse Eilande (Geselskapseilande)”
- Afrikaans: “Benedewindse Eilande”
- Amharic: “ሊዋርድ ደሴቶች”
- Arabic: “جزر ليوارد”
- Asturian: “Islles de Sotaventu”
- Azerbaijani: “Leeward adaları”
- Basque: “Haizebearen uharteak”
- Basque: “Haizebeko uharteak”
- Bengali: “লিওয়ার্ড দ্বীপ্পুঞ্জ”
- Catalan: “Illes de Sotavent”
- Chinese: “李娃島”
- Chinese: “背风群岛”
- Czech: “Podvětrné ostrovy”
- Czech: “Závětrné ostrovy”
- Danish: “Leeward Islands”
- Dutch: “Benedenwindse Eilanden (Frans-Polynesie)”
- Dutch: “Benedenwindse Eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Deventaj Insuloj”
- Estonian: “Tuulealused saared”
- Finnish: “Leewardsaaret”
- Finnish: “Suojanpuoleiset saaret”
- French: “Îles Sous-le-Vent”
- Galician: “Illas de Sotavento, Illas da Sociedade”
- Galician: “Illas de Sotavento”
- German: “Leeward-Inseln”
- Greek: “Νησιά Λίγουορν”
- Gujarati: “લીવાર્ડ આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
- Hausa: “Leeward Islands”
- Hindi: “लीवर्ड द्वीपसमूह”
- Hungarian: “Îles Sous-le-Vent”
- Hungarian: “Raro Mata’y mā”
- Hungarian: “Szél alatti szigetek”
- Hungarian: “Szélcsendes-szigetek”
- Hungarian: “Társaság-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Leeward”
- Italian: “Isole Sottovento”
- Japanese: “リーワード諸島”
- Javanese: “Kapuloan Leeward”
- Kannada: “ಲೀವರ್ಡ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Windward аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Leeward аралдары”
- Korean: “리워드 제도”
- Latin: “Insulae Infra Ventum”
- Latvian: “Aizvēja salas”
- Lithuanian: “Pavėjinės salos”
- Macedonian: “Заветрени Острови (Друштвени Острови)”
- Macedonian: “Заветрени Острови”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Leeward”
- Malay: “Leeward Islands”
- Maltese: “Gżejjer Leeward”
- Marathi: “लेआर्ड आईसलँडस”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sous-le-Vent Kûn-tó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Îles Sous-le-Vent”
- Norwegian: “Îles Sous-le-Vent”
- Oromo: “Leeward Islands”
- Panjabi: “ਲੀਵਾਰਡ ਟਾਪੂ”
- Persian: “جزایر بادپناه (جزایر انجمن)”
- Persian: “جزایر بادپناه”
- Persian: “جزایر لیوارد”
- Polish: “Wyspy Pod Wiatrem”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas de Sotavento”
- Pushto: “لیوارد جزیرې”
- Russian: “Подветренные острова”
- Sinhala: “ලිවාර්ඩ් දුපත්”
- Slovenian: “îles Sous-le-Vent”
- Slovenian: “Zavetrni otoki”
- Somali: “Leeward Islands”
- Spanish: “Islas de Sotavento”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Leeward”
- Swedish: “Îles Sous-le-Vent”
- Swedish: “Leeward Islands”
- Tahitian: “Raro mata’i mā”
- Tahitian: “Te fenua Raro mata’i mā”
- Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Leeward”
- Tamil: “லீவ்ர்டு இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Leeward аралдары”
- Telugu: “లీవార్డ్ దీవులు”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะลีเวิร์ด”
- Turkish: “Leeward Adaları”
- Turkish: “Rüzgâraltı Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Підвітряні острови”
- Urdu: “جزائر لیوارڈ”
- Uzbek: “Leeward orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Leeward”
- Western Frisian: “Underwynske Eilannen (Genoatskipseilannen)”
- Western Frisian: “Underwynske Eilannen”
- Yue Chinese: “下風群島”
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