Lawai
Lāwaʻi is a census-designated place in Kauaʻi County in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi. The population was 2,718 at the 2024 census, up from 1,984 at the 2000 census.- Type: Village with 2,360 residents
- Description: human settlement in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States of America
- Also known as: “Lawa‘i”, “Lāwaʻi, Hawaii”, and “Lawai, HI”
- Postal code: 96765
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kalāheo and ‘Ōma‘o.
Kalāheo
Village
Kalāheo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kauaʻi County, island of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 4,996 at the 2020 census, up from 3,913 at the 2000 census.
‘Ōma‘o
Village
ʻŌmaʻo is a census-designated place in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 1,346 at the 2020 census.
Koloa
Village
Kōloa is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 2,231 at the 2020 census, up from 1,942 at the 2000 census. Koloa is situated 5 km southeast of Lawai.
Lawai
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Kauai, Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.92624° or 21° 55′ 34″ north
Longitude
-159.50799° or 159° 30′ 29″ west
Population
2,360
Elevation
162 metres (531 feet)
Open location code
73H2WFGR+FR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Lawai” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lawai”
- Catalan: “Lawai”
- Cebuano: “Lāwa‘i”
- Chechen: “Лаваи (Гавай)”
- Chechen: “Лаваи”
- Chinese: “Lawai”
- Chinese: “拉懷”
- Chinese: “拉瓦伊”
- Dutch: “Lawai”
- French: “Lawai”
- Gilaki: “لاوای (هاوايي)”
- Gilaki: “لاوای”
- Hawaiian: “Lāwaʻi”
- Irish: “Lawai”
- Italian: “Lawai”
- Ladin: “Lawai”
- Mazanderani: “لووایی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lawai”
- Newari: “लावाइ, हवाई”
- Newari: “लावाइ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lawai (Hawaii)”
- Norwegian: “Lawai”
- Persian: “لووایی، هاوایی”
- Persian: “لووایی”
- Polish: “Lawai”
- Portuguese: “Lawai”
- Russian: “Лаваи”
- Serbian: “Лавај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lawai, Hawaii”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lawai”
- South Azerbaijani: “لووایی، هاوایی”
- Spanish: “Lawai”
- Tatar: “Лаваи (Гавай)”
- Tatar: “Лаваи”
- Ukrainian: “Лаваї”
- Urdu: “لاوائی، ہوائی”
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