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Bismarck Archipelago

The Bismarck Archipelago is in , around the Bismarck Sea northeast of that country's main island. It consists of three main islands and many smaller ones: The capitals are , and , respectively.
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  • Type: Archipelago
  • Description: archipelago in the Pacific Ocean north of New Guinea
  • Also known as: “New Britain Archipelago”

Bismarck Archipelago

Latitude of center
-5° or 5° south
Longitude of center
150° east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305002222
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
2099398
Wiki­data ID
Q154628
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Bismarck Archipelago” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Bismarck”
  • Afrikaans: “Bismarck-argipel”
  • Afrikaans: “Bismarckargipel”
  • Arabic: “أرخبيل بسمارك”
  • Armenian: “Բիսմարկի արշիպելագ”
  • Armenian: “Բիսմարկի կղզեխումբ”
  • Asturian: “Archipiélagu Bismarck”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bismark arxipelaqı”
  • Basque: “Bismarck uhartedia”
  • Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Бісмарка”
  • Breton: “Enezeg Bismarck”
  • Bulgarian: “Архипелаг Бисмарк”
  • Bulgarian: “Бисмарк”
  • Bulgarian: “Бисмарков архипелаг”
  • Catalan: “Arxipèlag Bismarck”
  • Catalan: “Arxipèlag de Bismarck”
  • Catalan: “Illes Bismarck”
  • Cebuano: “Bismarck Archipelago”
  • Chinese: “俾斯麥群島”
  • Chinese: “俾斯麦群岛”
  • Czech: “Bismarckovo souostroví”
  • Danish: “Bismarck-arkipelaget”
  • Danish: “Bismarckarkipelaget”
  • Dutch: “Bismarck arch”
  • Dutch: “Bismarck Archipel”
  • Dutch: “Bismarck-archipel”
  • Dutch: “Bismarckarchipel”
  • Esperanto: “Arkipelago de Bismarck”
  • Esperanto: “Bismarka Insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Bismarkoj”
  • Estonian: “Bismarcki saared”
  • Estonian: “Bismarcki saarestik”
  • Finnish: “Bismarckinsaaret”
  • French: “archipel Bismarck”
  • French: “Archipel Bismarck”
  • French: “îles Bismarck”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago Bismarck”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago de Bismarck”
  • Georgian: “ბისმარკის არქიპელაგი”
  • German: “Bismarck-Archipel”
  • German: “Bismarck-Inseln”
  • German: “Bismarckarchipel”
  • German: “Bismarckinseln”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος του Βίσμαρκ”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος του Μπίσμαρκ”
  • Greek: “Θάλασσα του Βίσμαρκ”
  • Greek: “Θάλασσα του Μπίσμαρκ”
  • Hebrew: “ארכיפלג ביסמרק”
  • Hungarian: “Bismarck-szigetek”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Bismarck”
  • Irish: “Oileánra Bismarck”
  • Italian: “Arcipelago delle Bismarck”
  • Italian: “Arcipelago di Bismarck”
  • Japanese: “ビスマーク諸島”
  • Japanese: “ビスマルク諸島”
  • Kirghiz: “Бисмарк архипелагы”
  • Korean: “비스마르크 제도”
  • Latin: “Archipelagus Bismarckianus”
  • Latvian: “Bismarka arhipelāgs”
  • Lithuanian: “Bismarko archipelagas”
  • Lithuanian: “Bismarko salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Bismarko salynas”
  • Low German: “Bismarck-Archipeel”
  • Macedonian: “Бизмарков Архипелаг”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Bismarck”
  • Malayalam: “ബിസ്മാർക്ക് ദ്വീപസമൂഹം”
  • Mingrelian: “ბისმარკიშ არქიპელაგი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bismarck-øyene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bismarckarkipelaget”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bismarckarkipelet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bismarckøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bismarckøyane”
  • Norwegian: “Bismarckarkipelaget”
  • Norwegian: “Bismarckarkipelet”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر بیسمارک”
  • Polish: “Archipelag Bismarcka”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Bismarck”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Bismarck”
  • Romanian: “Arhipelagul Bismarck”
  • Russian: “Архипелаг Бисмарка”
  • Russian: “Бисмарк, архипелаг”
  • Russian: “Бисмарка архипелаг”
  • Scots: “Bismarck Airchipelago”
  • Serbian: “Bizmarkov arhipelag”
  • Serbian: “Архипелаг Бизмарк”
  • Serbian: “Бизмарков архипелаг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bismarckov arhipelag”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bizmarkov arhipelag”
  • Slovak: “Bismarckovo súostrovie”
  • Slovenian: “Bismarckovo otočje”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago Bismarck”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago Bismarck”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago de Bismarck”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de Bismarck”
  • Spanish: “Bismarck Islands”
  • Spanish: “Islas Bismarck”
  • Swahili: “Funguvisiwa la Bismarck”
  • Swedish: “Bismarckarkipelagen”
  • Swedish: “Bismarcköarna”
  • Swiss German: “Bismarck-Archipel”
  • Tajik: “Галаҷазираи Бисмарк”
  • Tamil: “பிசுமார்க் தீவுக்கூட்டம்”
  • Tatar: “Бисмарк архипелагы”
  • Telugu: “బిస్మార్క్ ద్వీపసమూహం”
  • Thai: “Bismarck Archipelago”
  • Thai: “กลุ่มเกาะบิสมาร์ก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bismarck-Archipel”
  • Turkish: “Bismarck Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Bismarck Takımadaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Архіпелаг Бісмарка”
  • Ukrainian: “Бісмарка архіпелаг”
  • Urdu: “مجمع الجزائر بسمارک”
  • Urdu: “مجموعہ الجزائر بسمارک”
  • Uzbek: “Bismark arxipelagi”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Bismarck”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bismarck Archipelago”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Bismarck”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Bismarck”
  • Western Frisian: “Bismarckarsjipel”
  • Western Mari: “Бисмарк ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “بسمارک آرپیلاگو”
  • Wu Chinese: “俾斯麦群岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “俾斯麥群島”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bismarck Archipelago”. Photo: Taro Taylor, CC BY 2.0.