Big Island
The island of Hawai'i — universally called the Big Island by visitors to avoid confusion with its namesake state — is the largest island of the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Hilo and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is a national park on the Big Island of the island state of Hawaii.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Volcano Village and Waimea.
Waimea
Waimea is a landlocked community in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaii, United States.
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park is on the Kona coast of the island of Hawai'i.
Big Island
- Island with about 198,000 residents
- Description: largest of the Hawaiian islands
- Also known as“Big Island, Hawaii”“Gavaie”“Hawai‘i”“Hawai‘i Island”“Island of Hawai‘i”“Island of O’why’he”“Isola Owhyhi”“L’ile Owhyhi”“O-Waihi”“Ovagi”“Ovai”“Ovaigi”“Ovaigii”“Owhyee”“Owhyhee”“Owhyhee Island”“Savaii”“The Big Island”
- Category: volcanic island
- Location
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Latitude of center
19.5481° or 19° 32′ 53″ north
Longitude of center
-155.6649° or 155° 39′ 54″ west
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Big Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hawaiï”
- Arabic: “هاواي”
- Armenian: “Հավայի”
- Azerbaijani: “Havay adası”
- Basque: “Hawaii (uhartea)”
- Basque: “Hawaii”
- Basque: “The Orchid Isle”
- Belarusian: “Гаваі (востраў)”
- Belarusian: “Гаваі”
- Breton: “Enez Hawai‘i”
- Bulgarian: “Хаваи”
- Burmese: “ဟာဝိုင်ယီကျွန်းစု”
- Catalan: “Illa de Hawaii”
- Catalan: “Illa Hawaii”
- Cebuano: “Island of Hawai‘i”
- Chinese: “夏威夷大島”
- Chinese: “夏威夷島”
- Chinese: “大岛”
- Chuvash: “Гавайи (утрав)”
- Chuvash: “Гавайи”
- Czech: “Havaj”
- Danish: “Hawaii”
- Dutch: “Hawai’i”
- Dutch: “Hawaï”
- Esperanto: “Havaja insulo”
- Esperanto: “Havajo-Insulo”
- Esperanto: “Havajo”
- Estonian: “Havai saar”
- Estonian: “Hawaii saar”
- Finnish: “Havaiji (saari)”
- Finnish: “Havaiji”
- Finnish: “Island of Hawaii”
- French: “Hawaï”
- Galician: “Illa de Hawai”
- Galician: “Illa de Hawaii”
- Galician: “Illa Grande de Hawai”
- Galician: “Illa Hawaii”
- Georgian: “ჰავაი”
- German: “Hawai’i”
- Greek: “Νήσος Χαβάη”
- Greek: “Χαβάη”
- Hawaiian: “Hawaiʻi”
- Hawaiian: “Island of Hawai‘i”
- Hebrew: “הוואי”
- Hindi: “हवाई (द्वीप)”
- Hindi: “हवाई”
- Hungarian: “Hawaii”
- Icelandic: “Hawaii-eyja”
- Indonesian: “Hawaii”
- Interlingua: “Hawaii”
- Irish: “Haváí”
- Irish: “Hawaiʻi”
- Italian: “Grande Isola delle Hawaii”
- Italian: “Isola di Hawaii”
- Italian: “Isola Hawaii”
- Japanese: “ハワイ島”
- Korean: “하와이섬”
- Latvian: “Havaja”
- Lithuanian: “Havajai”
- Lithuanian: “Havajų sala”
- Macedonian: “Хаваи”
- Malay: “Hawaii”
- Mingrelian: “ჰავაი (კოკი)”
- Mingrelian: “ჰავაი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawaii”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hawaiiøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Hawaii”
- Norwegian: “Hawaii”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hawaii”
- Ossetian: “Гавайи (сакъадах)”
- Ossetian: “Гавайи”
- Papiamento: “Hawaii”
- Persian: “هاوایی”
- Polish: “Hawai’i”
- Portuguese: “Havai”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de havai”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Havai”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Havaí”
- Romanian: “Hawaii”
- Romanian: “Insula Hawai’i”
- Russian: “Большой остров”
- Russian: “Гавайи (остров)”
- Russian: “Гавайи”
- Russian: “остров Гавайи”
- Samogitian: “Havajū sala”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hawaii”
- Serbian: “Велико острво”
- Serbian: “Округ Хаваји (Хаваји)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hawaii County, Hawaii”
- Slovak: “Havaj”
- Slovenian: “Havaji”
- Slovenian: “Hawaii”
- South Azerbaijani: “هاوایی(آداسی)”
- South Azerbaijani: “هاوایی”
- Spanish: “Hawai”
- Spanish: “Isla de Hawái”
- Spanish: “Isla de Hawaii”
- Spanish: “Isla Grande de Hawai”
- Swedish: “Hawaii”
- Swedish: “Hawaiiön”
- Swiss German: “D Insle Hawaii”
- Swiss German: “Hawaii”
- Tajik: “Ҳавайӣ (ҷазира)”
- Tajik: “Ҳавайӣ”
- Thai: “เกาะฮาวาย”
- Turkish: “Hawaii”
- Ukrainian: “Гаваї”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Гаваї”
- Urdu: “ہوائی”
- Uzbek: “Gavayi (yarim orol)”
- Uzbek: “Gavayi”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Hawaii”
- Vietnamese: “Hawaii”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hawaii”
- Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Hawaii”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Hawaii”
- Welsh: “Hawaii”
- Welsh: “Ynys Hawaii”
- Western Frisian: “Hawaï”
- Wu Chinese: “夏威夷岛”
- Yue Chinese: “夏威夷島”
- “ma lili Awawi”
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”