Banaba
Banaba is an island of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. A solitary raised coral island west of the Gilbert Island Chain, it is the westernmost point of Kiribati, lying 185 miles east of Nauru, which is also its nearest neighbour.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Banaba Island” and “Ocean Island”
Banaba
- Categories: limestone island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.8586° or 0° 51′ 31″ south
Longitude
169.5352° or 169° 32′ 7″ east
Population
331
Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)
Open location code
6VFF4GRP+H3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Banaba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بانابا”
- Belarusian: “Банаба”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Банаба”
- Breton: “Banaba”
- Catalan: “Banaba”
- Catalan: “Illa Ocean”
- Cebuano: “Banaba Island”
- Chechen: “Ошен”
- Chinese: “巴納巴島”
- Chinese: “巴纳巴岛”
- Croatian: “Banaba”
- Czech: “Banaba”
- Czech: “Ocean”
- Danish: “Banaba”
- Dutch: “Banaba”
- Dutch: “Ocean Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بانابا”
- Esperanto: “Banaba”
- Estonian: “Banaba saar”
- Estonian: “Banaba”
- Finnish: “Banaba”
- French: “Banaba Island”
- French: “Banaba”
- French: “Île Océan”
- French: “Ocean Island”
- French: “Panaba”
- French: “Panapa”
- Galician: “Banaba”
- Georgian: “ბანაბა”
- German: “Banaba”
- Greek: “Μπανάμπα Νήσος”
- Hebrew: “אי האוקיינוס”
- Hebrew: “בנבה”
- Hebrew: “האי אושן”
- Hungarian: “Banaba”
- Icelandic: “Banaba”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Banaba”
- Italian: “Banaba”
- Japanese: “オーシャン島”
- Japanese: “バナバ島”
- Kazakh: “Банаба”
- Kirghiz: “Ошен аралы”
- Korean: “바나바섬”
- Korean: “오션 섬”
- Latin: “Banaba”
- Latin: “Insula Banaba”
- Latvian: “Banaba”
- Lithuanian: “Banaba”
- Lithuanian: “Ošenas”
- Macedonian: “Банаба”
- Marathi: “ओशन आयलंड”
- Marathi: “ओशन द्वीपसमूह”
- Marathi: “बनाबा द्वीप”
- Marathi: “बनाबा”
- Mingrelian: “ბანაბა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Banaba”
- Norwegian: “Banaba”
- Persian: “بانابا”
- Polish: “Banaba”
- Portuguese: “Banaba Island”
- Portuguese: “Banaba”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Banaba”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Banaba”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do oceano”
- Portuguese: “Tabiang”
- Romanian: “Insula Banaba”
- Russian: “Банаба”
- Russian: “Остров Ошен”
- Russian: “Ошен”
- Serbian: “Острво Банаба”
- Slovak: “Banaba”
- Spanish: “Banaba”
- Spanish: “Isla Ocean”
- Swedish: “Banaba”
- Thai: “เกาะบานาบา”
- Turkish: “Banaba Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Банаба”
- Urdu: “بانابا”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Banaba”
- “Banaba”
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