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Galveston Island

Galveston Island is a barrier island on the Gulf Coast in the United States, about 50 miles southeast of Houston. The entire island, with the exception of , is within the city limits of the City of in .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States
  • Also known as: “Auia”, “Campeche”, “Isla Blanca”, “Isla de Aranjuez”, “Isla de Culebras”, “Isla de Malhado”, “Island of Galveston”, and “San Luis Island”

Galveston Island

Latitude
29.2222° or 29° 13′ 20″ north
Longitude
-94.9088° or 94° 54′ 32″ west
Population
58,200
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
Open location code
76X763CR+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 356734825
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
4692869
Wiki­data ID
Q1315101
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Satellite Map

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

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Galveston Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة غالفستون”
  • Basque: “Galveston uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Галвестан (востраў)”
  • Belarusian: “Галвестан”
  • Catalan: “Galveston Island”
  • Cebuano: “Galveston Island”
  • Chinese: “Galveston 島”
  • Chinese: “加爾維斯頓島”
  • Dutch: “Galveston Island”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جالڤيستون ايسلاند”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جالڤيستون”
  • Estonian: “Galvestoni saar”
  • Finnish: “Galveston”
  • French: “île de Galveston”
  • French: “Île de Galveston”
  • German: “Galveston Island”
  • Hebrew: “גלווסטון”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Galveston”
  • Italian: “Isola di Galveston”
  • Japanese: “ガルヴェストン島”
  • Japanese: “ガルベストン島”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Galveston”
  • Russian: “Галвестон”
  • Serbian: “Галвестон”
  • Skolt Sami: “Galvestonsuâl”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Galveston”
  • Spanish: “Isla Galveston”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Galveston”

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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 “Galveston Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.