Babeldaob
Babeldaob is the biggest island of Palau. The area of Babeldaob makes up over 70% of the land area of the entire Republic of Palau. It has about 30% of the country's population, with about 6,000 people living on it.
Photo: Binter, Public domain.
Photo: Binter, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Palau
- Also known as: “Arrecifos”, “Babeldáob”, “Babeldzuap”, “Babelhoup Island”, “Babeltaob”, “Babelthaob”, “Babelthaub”, “Babelthaup Island”, “Babelthoap”, “Babelthoup”, “Babelthuab”, “Babelthuap”, “Babelthuap Island”, “Babeltloab”, “Babeltop”, “Babeltuap”, “Babelutaobu”, “Babelzuap”, “Baberudaobu To”, “Baberutaobu Jima”, “Babldaob”, “Bablehoup Island”, “Bablethoup Island”, “Badelzuap”, “Baobeltaob”, “Baubelthouap”, “CUCKOLD WW2”, “Ilha Babeldaob”, “Palau Island”, “Panlog”, “Panlog Island”, “Panloq”, “Parao”, “Parao Tō”, “바벨투아프 섬”, “バベルダオプ島”, and “パラオ本島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mount Ngerchelchuus and Ngardmau Waterfall.
Mount Ngerchelchuus
Peak
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Imeong Hamlet and Ngetbong.
Babeldaob
- Category: landform
- Location: Palau, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.5624° or 7° 33′ 45″ north
Longitude
134.5694° or 134° 34′ 10″ east
Population
5,880
Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)
Open location code
6QVPHH69+XQ
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Babeldaob” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بابلدأوب”
- Asturian: “Babeldaob”
- Basque: “Babeldaob”
- Belarusian: “Бабелдааб”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Бабелдааб”
- Bulgarian: “Бабелдаоб”
- Catalan: “Babeldaob”
- Cebuano: “Babeldaob”
- Chinese: “巴伯尔图阿普岛”
- Chinese: “巴伯尔道布岛”
- Chinese: “巴伯爾圖阿普島”
- Chinese: “巴貝圖阿普島”
- Croatian: “Babeldaob”
- Czech: “Babeldaob”
- Dutch: “Babeldaob”
- Esperanto: “Babeldaob”
- Estonian: “Babelthuap”
- Finnish: “Babeldaob”
- French: “Babeldaob”
- Galician: “Babeldaob”
- Georgian: “ბაბელდაობი”
- German: “Babeldaob”
- German: “Babelthuap”
- Indonesian: “Babeldaob”
- Italian: “Babeldaob”
- Japanese: “バベルダオブ島”
- Kinyarwanda: “Babeldaob”
- Korean: “바벨다오브섬”
- Ladin: “Babeldaob”
- Latvian: “Babeldaopa”
- Lithuanian: “Babeltuapas”
- Macedonian: “Бабелдаоб”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Babeldaob”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Babeldaob”
- Norwegian: “Babeldaob”
- Nyanja: “Babeldaob”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Babeldaob”
- Polish: “Babeldaob”
- Polish: “Babelthuap”
- Portuguese: “Babeldaob”
- Russian: “Бабелдаоб”
- Russian: “Бабелтуап”
- Serbian: “Бабелдаоб”
- Slovenian: “Babeldaob”
- Spanish: “Babeldaob”
- Swahili: “Babeldaob”
- Swedish: “Babeldaob”
- Thai: “บาเบลดาออบ”
- Thai: “บาเบลโดอาป”
- Tumbuka: “Babeldaob”
- Turkish: “Babeldaob”
- Ukrainian: “Бабелдаоб”
- Urdu: “بابلداوب”
- Vietnamese: “Babeldaob”
- “ma Papeta”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ngerkeai and Ngkeklau.
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