Kaunakakai
Kaunakakai is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States. It is the largest town on the island of Molokaʻi. The population was 3,419 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,430 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States
- Also known as: “Kaunakakai, Hawaii” and “Kaunakakai, HI”
- Postal code: 96748
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kanemitsu Bakery.
Kanemitsu Bakery
Bakery
Kanemitsu Bakery in Kaunakakai on the Hawaiian island of Molokai is a bakery known for its baked goods and the "hot bread" served out of its back door at night.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kualapuʻu and Hoʻolehua.
Kualapuʻu
Village
Photo: Sanba38, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kualapuʻu is a census-designated place on the island of Molokai in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 2,110 at the 2020 census. Kualapuʻu can be literally translated as "hill overturned", but is thought to be a corruption of Puʻuʻuala: "sweet potato hill". Kualapuʻu is situated 4½ miles north of Kaunakakai.
Hoʻolehua
Hamlet
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us.
Hoʻolehua is an unincorporated community and Hawaiian home land on the island of Molokaʻi in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. It lies just off Hawaii Route 460, next to the Molokai Airport. Hoʻolehua is situated 6 miles northwest of Kaunakakai.
Kaunakakai
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Maui County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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Latitude
21.09063° or 21° 5′ 26″ northLongitude
-157.02084° or 157° 1′ 15″ westPopulation
3,430Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
US KUAOpen location code
73H43XRH+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 150921393OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Kaunakakai” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kaunakakai”
- Catalan: “Kaunakakai”
- Cebuano: “Kaunakakai”
- Chechen: “Каунакакаи (Гавай)”
- Chechen: “Каунакакаи”
- Chinese: “Kaunakakai”
- Chinese: “科納卡凱”
- Chinese: “科纳卡凯”
- Danish: “Kaunakakai”
- Dutch: “Kaunakakai”
- French: “Kaunakakai”
- German: “Kaunakakai”
- Gilaki: “کاؤناکاکی (هاوايي)”
- Gilaki: “کاؤناکاکی”
- Hawaiian: “Kaunakakai”
- Hebrew: “קאונקאקאי”
- Interlingua: “Kaunakakai”
- Irish: “Kaunakakai”
- Italian: “Kaunakakai”
- Japanese: “カウナカカイ”
- Korean: “카우나카카이”
- Ladin: “Kaunakakai”
- Mazanderani: “کائوناکاکی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kaunakakai”
- Newari: “कौनककाइ, हवाई”
- Persian: “کائوناکاکی، هاوایی”
- Persian: “کائوناکاکی”
- Polish: “Kaunakakai”
- Portuguese: “Kaunakakai”
- Russian: “Каунакакаи”
- Serbian: “Каунакакај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kaunakakai, Hawaii”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kaunakakai”
- Slovenian: “Kaunakakai”
- South Azerbaijani: “کائوناکاکی، هاوایی”
- Spanish: “Kaunakakai (Hawái)”
- Spanish: “Kaunakakai”
- Swedish: “Kaunakakai”
- Tatar: “Каунакакаи (Гавай)”
- Tatar: “Каунакакаи”
- Ukrainian: “Каунакакаї”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include United States Post Office and Molokai Public Library.
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