Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
The Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean consist of four small coral islands and an atoll, as well as a reef in the Indian Ocean; they constitute the fifth district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, though sovereignty over some or all of the islands is contested by the Comoros, Madagascar, and Mauritius.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: island group
- Description: islands, atoll, and reef in the Indian Ocean, part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Also known as: “Iles Eparses de l’ocean Indien” and “Îles Éparses or Îles éparses de l’océan indien”
Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Îles Éparses de l’océan Indien”
- Afrikaans: “Îles Éparses”
- Afrikaans: “Verspreide Eilande in die Indiese Oseaan”
- Arabic: “جزر مبعثرة في المحيط الهندي”
- Asturian: “Islles Esperdigaes del Océanu Índicu”
- Azerbaijani: “Eparse adaları”
- Basque: “Îles éparses”
- Basque: “Indiako ozeanoko uharte sakabanatuak”
- Basque: “Indiako Ozeanoko uharte sakabanatuak”
- Bavarian: “Îles Éparses”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Эпарсэ”
- Bengali: “ভারত মহাসাগরের বিক্ষিপ্ত দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Breton: “Inizi Strewet”
- Bulgarian: “Разпръснати острови”
- Catalan: “Illes Esparses de l’Oceà Índic”
- Catalan: “Illes Esparses”
- Cebuano: “Îles Éparses de l’océan Indien”
- Chinese: “法属印度洋诸岛”
- Chinese: “法屬印度洋諸島”
- Croatian: “Îles éparses de l’océan indien”
- Croatian: “Îles éparses”
- Croatian: “Raspršeni otoci Indijskog oceana”
- Croatian: “Raspršeni otoci u Indijskom oceanu”
- Croatian: “Raspršeni otoci”
- Czech: “Roztroušené ostrovy”
- Danish: “Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean”
- Dutch: “Îles Éparses”
- Dutch: “Verspreide Eilanden in de Indische Oceaan”
- Esperanto: “Disaj Insuloj en la Hinda Oceano”
- Finnish: “Intian valtameren erillissaaret”
- French: “Éparses”
- French: “îles Éparses de l’océan Indien”
- French: “Îles Éparses de l’océan Indien”
- French: “Îles Éparses or Îles éparses de l’océan indien”
- French: “Iles Eparses”
- French: “Îles eparses”
- French: “Îles Éparses”
- French: “Iles Tromelin, Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa et Bassas da India”
- Galician: “Illas dispersas do Océano Índico”
- Georgian: “ეპარსე”
- Georgian: “ეპარსეს კუნძულები”
- German: “Îles éparses de l’océan Indien”
- German: “Iles Eparses”
- German: “Îles Éparses”
- Greek: “Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean”
- Greek: “Διασκορπισμένα νησιά στον Ινδικό Ωκεανό”
- Greek: “Διασκορπισμένα Νησιά”
- Greek: “Διάσπαρτες Νήσοι Ινδικού Ωκεανού”
- Greek: “Διάσπαρτες Νήσοι στον Ινδικό Ωκεανό”
- Greek: “Διάσπαρτοι Νήσοι Ινδικού Ωκεανού”
- Greek: “Διάσπαρτοι Νήσοι”
- Guianese Creole French: “Zil Épars di loséyan Endyen”
- Gujarati: “સ્કેટેરેડ આયલેન્ડ્સ ઇન ધ ઇન્ડિયન ઓશન”
- Hebrew: “איי אפארסה”
- Hindi: “हिन्द महासागर में बिखरे द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Indiai-óceáni francia szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Pulau-pulau yang tersebar di Samudera Hindia”
- Indonesian: “Pulau-pulau yang tersebar di Samudra Hindia”
- Italian: “Isole sparse dell’Oceano Indiano”
- Italian: “Isole Sparse dell’Oceano Indiano”
- Japanese: “フランス領インド洋無人島群”
- Kannada: “ಹಿಂದೂ ಮಹಾಸಾಗರದಲ್ಲಿ ಚದುರಿದ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Эпарсе аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Эпарсе аралдары”
- Korean: “일제파르스”
- Korean: “프랑스령 인도양 군도”
- Latvian: “Indijas okeāna izklaidus salas”
- Lithuanian: “Išsibarsčiusios Indijos vandenyno salos”
- Macedonian: “Епарсе”
- Macedonian: “Расеани Индоокеански Острови”
- Macedonian: “Расеани Острови”
- Malagasy: “Nosy Miparitaka”
- Malay: “Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean”
- Marathi: “स्काटर्ड आईसलँडस इन द इंडियन ओशन”
- Northern Frisian: “Îles Éparses”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Iles eparses”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Îles éparses”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Îles éparses”
- Norwegian: “Îles éparses”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Escampilhadas”
- Persian: “ایل-اپارس”
- Polish: “Wyspy Rozproszone Oceanu Indyjskiego”
- Polish: “Wyspy Rozproszone”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Dispersas do Oceano Índico”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Esparsas”
- Romanian: “Îles eparses”
- Romanian: “Îles éparses”
- Romanian: “Îles Éparses”
- Russian: “Острова Эпарс”
- Russian: “Острова Эпарсе (Разбросанные острова),”
- Russian: “Острова Эпарсе”
- Russian: “Разбросанные острова”
- Serbian: “Rasejana ostrva u Indijskom okeanu”
- Serbian: “Расејана острва у Индијском океану”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Îles éparses”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raspršena ostrva”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raspršeni otoci u Indijskom Oceanu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raspršeni otoci”
- Sinhala: “ස්කැටර්ඩ් දුපත්”
- Slovak: “Îles Éparses”
- Slovenian: “Razpršena otoška ozemlja”
- Slovenian: “Razpršeni otoki v Indijskem oceanu”
- Spanish: “Islas Dispersas del Oceano Indico”
- Spanish: “Islas Dispersas del Oceano Índico”
- Spanish: “Islas Dispersas del Océano Indico”
- Spanish: “Islas Dispersas del Océano Índico”
- Spanish: “Islas Dispersas”
- Sundanese: “Pulo nu kasebar di Samudra Hindia”
- Swahili: “Îles Éparses”
- Swedish: “Iles Eparses”
- Swedish: “Îles Éparses”
- Swiss German: “Îles éparses”
- Tamil: “ஸ்கேட்டிரேட் இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ் இந்த தி இந்தியன் ஓசான்”
- Telugu: “ఇండియన్ ఓషన్ స్కాటర్డ్ దీవులు”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะสคัทเตอร์ในมหาสมุทรอินเดีย”
- Tosk Albanian: “Îles Éparses”
- Turkish: “Hint Okyanusu’ndaki Dağınık Adalar”
- Turkish: “Îles Éparses”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Епарсе”
- Ukrainian: “Розсіяні острови в Індійському океані”
- Ukrainian: “Французькі Південні території”
- Urdu: “بحر ہند میں بکھرے جزائر”
- Vietnamese: “Các đảo rải rác tại Ấn Độ Dương”
- Vietnamese: “Iles Eparses”
- Western Panjabi: “بحر ہند وچ بکھرے جزیرے”
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