Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago in the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Hawaiʻian Islands”, “Hawaii Archipelagus”, “Hawaiian Archipelago”, “Iles Sandwich”, “Insulae Sandwichenses”, “Isole Hawaii”, “Isole Sandwich”, “L’archipel des Hawaii”, “Mokupuni o Hawai‘i”, “Sandvichevye Islands”, “Sandwich Archipelago”, “Sandwich Inseln”, and “Sandwich Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Molokai.
Molokai
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Molokaʻi or Molokai is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kualapuʻu and Kaunakakai.
Kualapuʻu
Village
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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 2½ miles northwest of Hawaiian Islands.
Kaunakakai
Town
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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. Kaunakakai is situated 3 miles south of Hawaiian Islands.
Kalaupapa
Village
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Kalaupapa is a small unincorporated community and Hawaiian home land on the island of Molokaʻi, within Kalawao County in the U.S. state of Hawaii. In 1866, during the reign of Kamehameha V, the Hawaii legislature passed a law that resulted in the designation… Kalaupapa is situated 4 miles northeast of Hawaiian Islands.
Hawaiian Islands
- Categories: archipelago, cultural region, and landform
- Location: Maui County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hawaiian Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجزر الهاوايية”
- Arabic: “جزر هاواي”
- Armenian: “Հավայան կղզիներ”
- Armenian: “Սանդվիչյան կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Archipiélagu de H.awai”
- Asturian: “Archipielagu de Hawai”
- Asturian: “Archipielagu de Ḥawai”
- Asturian: “Archipiélagu de Hawai”
- Asturian: “Archipiélagu de Ḥawai”
- Asturian: “Hawai”
- Asturian: “Ḥawai”
- Azerbaijani: “Havay adaları”
- Bashkir: “Гавай утрауҙары”
- Basque: “Hawaii uharteak”
- Bavarian: “Hawaii-Insln”
- Belarusian: “Гавайскі архіпелаг”
- Belarusian: “Гавайскія астравы”
- Bulgarian: “Хавайски острови”
- Bulgarian: “Хавайските острови”
- Catalan: “Illes hawaianes”
- Catalan: “illes Hawaii”
- Catalan: “Illes Hawaii”
- Catalan: “Illes Sandwich”
- Cebuano: “Hawaiian Islands”
- Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی ھاوایی”
- Chinese: “Hawaiʻi Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “夏威夷地理”
- Chinese: “夏威夷群岛”
- Chinese: “夏威夷群島”
- Chuvash: “Гавайи утравӗсем”
- Croatian: “Havajsko otočje”
- Czech: “Havajské ostrovy”
- Czech: “Havajské souostroví”
- Danish: “Hawaii øerne”
- Danish: “Hawaii-øerne”
- Danish: “Hawaiian Islands”
- Danish: “Hawaiiøerne”
- Danish: “Sandwich Islands”
- Dutch: “Hawaiaanse eilanden”
- Dutch: “Hawaïaanse eilanden”
- Dutch: “Hawaiiaanse eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Havajaj Insuloj”
- Estonian: “Havai saared”
- Estonian: “Havai saarestik”
- Estonian: “Hawaii saared”
- Fiji Hindi: “Hawaiian Islands”
- Finnish: “Havaijisaaret”
- Finnish: “Hawaiian Islands”
- French: “archipel d’Hawaï”
- French: “Archipel d’Hawaï”
- French: “Archipel d’Hawaii”
- French: “Archipel de Hawaï”
- French: “Archipel de Hawaii”
- French: “Archipel Hawaïen”
- French: “Géographie de Hawaii”
- Galician: “Arquipélago de Hawai”
- Galician: “Illas Hawai”
- Georgian: “ჰავაის კუნძულები”
- German: “Hawaii-Inseln”
- German: “Liste der Hawaii-Inseln”
- Hawaiian: “Hawai‘ian Islands”
- Hawaiian: “Mokupuni o Hawai‘i”
- Hawaiian: “Mokupuni o Hawaiʻi”
- Hawaiian: “Pae moku Hawaiʻi”
- Hebrew: “איי הוואי”
- Hindi: “हवाई द्वीपसमूह”
- Hungarian: “Hawaii-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Hawaii-eyjaklasinn”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Hawaii”
- Interlingua: “Archipelago Hawaii”
- Interlingua: “Insulas Hawaii”
- Irish: “Na hOileáin Haváíocha”
- Italian: “Isole delle Hawaii”
- Japanese: “サンドイッチ諸島”
- Japanese: “ハワイ諸島”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Gavayi atawları”
- Kazakh: “Гавай аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Гавайи аралдары”
- Korean: “하와이 제도”
- Ladin: “Ijules Hawaii”
- Latin: “Insulae Havaianae”
- Latvian: “Havaju salas”
- Literary Chinese: “夏威夷群島”
- Lithuanian: “Havajai”
- Macedonian: “Сендвички Острови”
- Macedonian: “Хавајски Острови”
- Maithili: “हवाइयन टापू”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Hawaii”
- Malayalam: “ഹവായി ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hawaiʻi Kûn-tó”
- Nepali: “हवाइयन टापू”
- Nepali: “हवाई टापुहरू”
- Northern Sami: “Haváijasullot”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawaii øyene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawaiiarkipelet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawaiiøyene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandwicharkipelet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandwichøyene”
- Norwegian: “Hawaiiøyene”
- Ossetian: “Гавайы сакъадæхтæ”
- Persian: “جزایر هاوایی”
- Polish: “Hawaje”
- Polish: “Rezerwat Biosfery Hawajów”
- Polish: “Wyspy Sandwich”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago do Havai”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago do Havaí”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago Havaiano”
- Romanian: “Arhipelagul Hawaii”
- Romanian: “Insulele Hawaii”
- Russian: “Sandwich Islands”
- Russian: “Гавайи”
- Russian: “Гавайские острова”
- Russian: “Гавайский архипелаг”
- Russian: “Сандвичевы острова”
- Serbian: “Havajska ostrva”
- Serbian: “Сендвичка острва”
- Serbian: “Хаваји”
- Serbian: “Хавајска острва”
- Slovak: “Havajské ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Havaji”
- Slovenian: “Havajski otoki”
- Slovenian: “Otočje Hawaii”
- Slovenian: “Otočje Sandwich”
- Slovenian: “Sandviški otoci”
- Slovenian: “Sandwichevi otoki”
- Slovenian: “Sandwichsko otočje”
- Slovenian: “Sandwiški otoki”
- South Azerbaijani: “هاوایی آدالاری”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de Hawai”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de Hawái”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Hawai”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Hawái”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de Hawaii”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Hawaii”
- Spanish: “Hawai”
- Spanish: “Islas de Hawai”
- Spanish: “Islas de Hawái”
- Spanish: “Islas Hawai”
- Spanish: “Islas Hawái”
- Spanish: “Islas hawaianas”
- Spanish: “Islas Hawaii”
- Spanish: “Islas Sandwich”
- Spanish: “Islas Sándwich”
- Swedish: “Hawaii Öarna”
- Swedish: “Hawaiigruppen”
- Swedish: “Hawaiiöarna”
- Tagalog: “Hawaian Islands”
- Tagalog: “Hawaii Islands”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Hawai’i”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Hawaiʻi”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Hawaii”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluang Hawaian”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluang Hawaiano”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluang Hawaiʻi”
- Tamil: “அவாயித் தீவுகள்”
- Tatar: “Гавай утраулары”
- Tatar: “Һавай утраулары”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะฮาวาย”
- Turkish: “Hawaii Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Гаваї”
- Ukrainian: “Гавайський архіпелаг”
- Ukrainian: “Гавайські острови”
- Urdu: “جزائر ہوائی”
- Uzbek: “Gavayi orollari”
- Uzbek: “Gavayi Orollari”
- Uzbek: “Sandvich orollari”
- Uzbek: “Sandvich Orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Hawaii”
- Welsh: “Ynysfor Hawaii”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Hawaii”
- Western Frisian: “Hawaï-eilannen”
- Wu Chinese: “夏威夷群島”
- Yue Chinese: “夏威夷群島”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kala‘e and Kahualelepulu.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kalualohe Gulch and Pu‘uluahine.
Hawaii: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Honolulu, Kauai, Hilo, and Molokai.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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