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  • Type: Town with 6,460 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Hawaii, United States
  • Also known as: “Lihu‘e”, “Lihu’e”, “Līhuʻe”, “Līhuʻe, Hawaii”, and “Līhuʻe, HI”
  • Postal code: 96766

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wilcox Medical Center and Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.

Hospital
is part of Hawaii Pacific Health's network. One of Kauaʻi island's three hospitals, provides Kauaʻi residents with an imaging center, emergency department, and surgical center.

Church
in Lihue is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church of in the . Located in Lihue on the island of Kauai, the church falls under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Honolulu and its bishop.

Commercial area
, often simply called Kukui Grove, is an open-air located in the retail district of Lihue, Hawaii. It is Kauai's largest mall and only regional mall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hanamaulu and Puhi.

Village
Photo: Syced, CC0.
Hanamāʻulu is a census-designated place in , , United States. It is the ancient birthplace of Kawelo, a member of Kauai's ruling family. The population was 4,994 at the 2020 census, up from 3,272 at the 2000 census.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 3,380 at the 2020 census, up from 1,186 at the 2000 census. is situated 2 miles southwest of Lihue.

Suburb
Wailua Homesteads is a census-designated place in Kauaʻi County, . The population was 5,863 at the 2020 census, up from 4,567 at the 2000 census. is situated 6 miles north of Lihue.

Lihue

Latitude
21.97696° or 21° 58′ 37″ north
Longitude
-159.36877° or 159° 22′ 8″ west
Population
6,460
Elevation
213 feet (65 metres)
IATA airport code
LIH
United Nations Location Code
US LIU
Open location code
73H2XJGJ+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150919546
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5850248
Wiki­data ID
Q588881
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Lihue” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Līhuʻe”
  • Catalan: “Lihue”
  • Cebuano: “Lihue”
  • Chechen: “Лигуе (Гавай)”
  • Chechen: “Лигуе”
  • Chinese: “Lihue”
  • Chinese: “利胡埃”
  • Czech: “Lihue”
  • Danish: “Lihue”
  • Dutch: “Lihue”
  • Finnish: “Lihue”
  • French: “Lihue”
  • German: “Līhuʻe”
  • Gilaki: “لیه‌وی (هاوايي)”
  • Gilaki: “لیه‌وی”
  • Hawaiian: “Līhuʻe”
  • Hebrew: “ליהואה”
  • Hungarian: “Lihue”
  • Indonesian: “Lihue, Hawaii”
  • Indonesian: “Lihue”
  • Interlingua: “Lihue”
  • Irish: “Līhuʻe”
  • Italian: “Lihue”
  • Japanese: “リフエ”
  • Korean: “리후에”
  • Korean: “리휴”
  • Ladin: “Lihue”
  • Ladin: “Līhuʻe”
  • Lithuanian: “Lihue”
  • Lithuanian: “Lihuė”
  • Mazanderani: “لیهو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lihue”
  • Newari: “लिहुए (हवाई)”
  • Newari: “लिह्यु (हवाई)”
  • Newari: “लिह्यु, हवाई”
  • Newari: “लिह्यु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lihue”
  • Norwegian: “Lihue”
  • Persian: “لیهو، هاوایی”
  • Persian: “لیهو”
  • Polish: “Lihue”
  • Polish: “Līhuʻe”
  • Portuguese: “Lihue”
  • Russian: “Лихуэ”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lihue, Hawaii”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lihue”
  • Serbian: “Лихуе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lihue, Hawaii”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lihue”
  • Slovak: “Lihue”
  • Slovenian: “Lihue”
  • Slovenian: “Līhuʻe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیهو، هاوایی”
  • Spanish: “Lihue (Hawái)”
  • Spanish: “Lihue”
  • Swedish: “Lihue”
  • Talysh: “Lihue”
  • Tatar: “Лигуе (Гавай)”
  • Tatar: “Лигуе”
  • Ukrainian: “Лігуе”
  • Urdu: “لیہوے، ہوائی”
  • Urdu: “لیہوے”
  • Welsh: “Līhuʻe”

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