Canary Islands

The Canary Islands or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost autonomous community of , located about 100 kilometres off the northwest coast of .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas.

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is the capital and largest city of . It's also the capital city of the Canary Islands, together with .

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de Gran Canaria, or just , is the capital of , the largest city in the Canary Islands, and one of the largest cities in .

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is an island of the Canary Islands, which are an integral part of . It is near , and the archipelagos of the and , both Portuguese. The nickname of the island is "La Isla Bonita".

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is the largest of the Canary Islands and is a great place to travel. British, Nordic and German tourists come in their tens of thousands every year to visit its spectacular beaches and lively nightlife.

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is the third largest island in the Canary Islands and has the largest population. It's often described as a "continent in miniature" because it has so much variety to offer.

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is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean 130 km west of and 1,000 km southwest of mainland . With a population of 156,112​ in 2022, it's the fourth largest of the Canary Islands, about half the size of its neighbour .

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is one of the islands that makes up the Canary Islands. It is the second largest island of the Canaries to Tenerife, with population around 124,000. is located south of ; the two islands are 11 km apart.

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is the second smallest island of the Canary Islands. It is an undeveloped, unspoilt, beautiful island 40 minutes by fast ferry from Tenerife that is ideal for walkers.

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is the smallest island of the Canary Islands. Despite this, the island is a tiny planet, where you can find all the possible climates and landscapes, from the desert around La Restinga to the most exuberant tropical in the Valverde area, without forgetting the beautiful and shocking volcanic landscapes.

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is the smallest inhabited island of the Canary Islands archipelago. It extends 8 km north-south and 4 km east-west, with an arid landscape and a population of 734 in 2018.

Canary Islands

Latitude of center
28.043° or 28° 2′ 35″ north
Longitude of center
-15.6116° or 15° 36′ 42″ west
Population
2,270,000
Elevation
644 metres (2,113 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2593110
Wiki­data ID
Q5813
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Canary Islands” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kanariese Eilande”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Kanare”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Kanarie”
  • Amharic: “ካናሪ ደሴቶች”
  • Amharic: “ካናሪያስ ደሴቶች”
  • Arabic: “الجزر الخالدات”
  • Arabic: “جزر الخالدات”
  • Arabic: “جزر الكناري”
  • Arabic: “جزر الكنارية”
  • Arabic: “جزر كناري”
  • Arabic: “جزر كنارية”
  • Arabic: “قائمة جزر جزر الكناري”
  • Arabic: “منطقة جزر الكناري الذاتية الحكم”
  • Arabic: “منطقة جزر الكناري ذاتية الحكم”
  • Arabic: “منطقة جزر الكناري”
  • Arabic: “منطقة حكم ذاتي جزر الكناري”
  • Arabic: “منطقه جزر الكناري ذاتيه الحكم”
  • Aragonese: “Canarias”
  • Armenian: “Կանարյան կղզիներ”
  • Arpitan: “Canaries”
  • Arpitan: “Iles Canaries”
  • Assamese: “কেনেৰী দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Asturian: “Canaries”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanar adaları”
  • Bashkir: “Канар утрауҙары”
  • Bashkir: “Канар”
  • Basque: “Kanariak”
  • Bavarian: “Kanarische Insln”
  • Bavarian: “Kanarn”
  • Belarusian: “Канарскі архіпэляг”
  • Belarusian: “Канарскія астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Канары”
  • Bengali: “কানারি দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “ক্যানারিদ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Betawi: “Pulo Kenari”
  • Bosnian: “Kanarska ostrva”
  • Breton: “Inizi Kanariez”
  • Breton: “Kanariez”
  • Bulgarian: “Канарски острови”
  • Burmese: “ကနေရီကျွန်းစု”
  • Catalan: “Canarias”
  • Catalan: “Canàries”
  • Catalan: “illes Canàries”
  • Catalan: “Illes Canàries”
  • Catalan: “Islas Canarias”
  • Cebuano: “Canary Islands”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی کەناری”
  • Chechen: “Канаран гӀайренаш”
  • Chechen: “Канаран гӀайреш”
  • Chinese: “Canaria Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “加納利群島”
  • Chinese: “加那利亞群島”
  • Chinese: “加那利群岛”
  • Chinese: “加那利群島”
  • Cornish: “Canarias”
  • Corsican: “Canari”
  • Corsican: “Canarii”
  • Corsican: “Isuli Canari”
  • Corsican: “Isuli Canarii”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kanarı adalar”
  • Croatian: “Kanari”
  • Czech: “Kanárské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Kanáry”
  • Dagbani: “Canary Islands”
  • Danish: “De Kanariske Øer”
  • Danish: “Kanariske Øer”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adey Kanarya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adeyê Kanarya”
  • Dutch: “Canarische Eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Canarische eilandengroep”
  • Dutch: “IC”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر الكنارى”
  • Esperanto: “Kanariaj Insuloj”
  • Esperanto: “Kanarioj”
  • Estonian: “Kanaari saared”
  • Extremaduran: “Canarias”
  • Extremaduran: “Canárias”
  • Faroese: “Kanarisku oyggjarnar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Canary Islands”
  • Finnish: “Islas Canarias”
  • Finnish: “Kanaria”
  • Finnish: “Kanariansaaret”
  • French: “Canaries”
  • French: “îles Canaries”
  • French: “Îles Canaries”
  • Gagauz: “Kanariya adaları”
  • Galician: “Canarias”
  • Galician: “Illas Canarias”
  • Georgian: “კანარის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Kanaren”
  • German: “Kanarische Inseln”
  • Greek: “Κανάρια Νησιά”
  • Greek: “Κανάριες Νήσοι”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil Kanari”
  • Gujarati: “કેનેરી આઈલેન્ડ”
  • Gujarati: “કેનેરી ટાપુઓ”
  • Haitian: “Canaries”
  • Haitian: “Zile Kanari”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Canaria Khiùn-tó”
  • Hausa: “Canary Islands”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Kanariyas”
  • Hawaiian: “Nā Moku Manu Mele”
  • Hebrew: “האיים הקנריים”
  • Hindi: “कैनरी द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Kanári-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Kanaríeyjar”
  • Ido: “Kanarii”
  • Inari Sami: “Kanariasuolluuh”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Canaria”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Kanaria”
  • Interlingua: “Canarias”
  • Interlingua: “Insulas Canari”
  • Interlingue: “Insules Canarias”
  • Irish: “na hOileáin Chanáracha”
  • Irish: “Na hOileáin Chanáracha”
  • Italian: “Canarie”
  • Italian: “Isole Canarie”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kianieri Ailanz”
  • Japanese: “カナリアス”
  • Japanese: “カナリア諸島”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Canaria”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Canary”
  • Kabardian: “Канар тӀыгухэр”
  • Kabardian: “Канар хы тӀыгухэр”
  • Kabyle: “Tigzirin Tiknariyin”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆನರಿ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kazakh: “Канар аралдары”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kakanaryohan”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kakanaryuhan”
  • Kirghiz: “Канар аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Канария аралдары”
  • Korean: “인술라 카나리아”
  • Korean: “카나리아 제도”
  • Korean: “카나리아”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Kenariyê”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Qenariyê”
  • Ladin: “Ijules Canaries”
  • Ladino: “Izlas Kanarias”
  • Ladino: “Kanarias”
  • Latin: “Canariae Insulae”
  • Latin: “Fortunatae Insulae”
  • Latvian: “Kanāriju salas”
  • Latvian: “Kanāriju Salas”
  • Ligurian: “Canâie”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Canaïe”
  • Ligurian: “Îzoe Canâie”
  • Limburgan: “Canarische eilenj”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Canario”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanarų salos”
  • Low German: “Kanariese Eiloanden”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kanariske kupy”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanaresch Inselen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Canarias”
  • Macedonian: “Канарски Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Kanaria”
  • Malagasy: “Vondronosy Canarias”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Canaria”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Canary”
  • Malayalam: “കനേറി ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Kanarji”
  • Manx: “ny h-Ellanyn Canaaragh”
  • Manx: “Ny h-Ellanyn Canaaragh”
  • Maori: “Islas Canarias”
  • Marathi: “कॅनरी द्वीपसमूह”
  • Mazanderani: “قناری جزیره‌ئون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Canaria Kûn-tó”
  • Mingrelian: “კანარიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mongolian: “Канарын арлууд”
  • Mongolian: “Канарын Арлууд”
  • Narom: “Canâries”
  • Narom: “Îles Canâries”
  • Neapolitan: “Isule Canarie”
  • Nepali: “क्यानरी द्विप”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kanaaren”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kanaarisk Eilunen”
  • Northern Luri: “میناڤە یا قأناری”
  • Northern Sami: “Kanáriasullot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanariøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanariøyane”
  • Norwegian: “Kanariøyene”
  • Novial: “Isles Kanarias”
  • Obolo: “Achọ Kanari”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canàrias”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Canàrias”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Islas Canàrias”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fortunatus Iega”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fortunatus iegland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fortunatus īegland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fortunatus”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hundīega”
  • Oromo: “Canary Islands”
  • Ossetian: “Канары сакъадæхтæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਨਰੀ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Kanaria”
  • Pedi: “Canary Islands”
  • Persian: “جزایر قناری”
  • Piemontese: “Ìsole Canarie”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Kanaryjskie”
  • Portuguese: “as Canárias”
  • Portuguese: “Canárias”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Canárias”
  • Portuguese: “Islas Canarias”
  • Pushto: “کاناري ټاپوګان”
  • Quechua: “Kanarya wat’akuna”
  • Quechua: “Kanarya watakuna”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Canare”
  • Russia Buriat: “Канарай аралнууд”
  • Russian: “Автономная область Канарских Островов”
  • Russian: “Канарские острова”
  • Russian: “Канарские Острова”
  • Samogitian: “Kanaru salas”
  • Sardinian: “Canarias”
  • Sardinian: “Isulas Canarias”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsulas Canàrias”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kanariske Ailounde”
  • Scots: “Canaries”
  • Scots: “Canary Islands”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Canàrach”
  • Serbian: “Канарска острва”
  • Serbian: “Канарска Острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kanari”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kanarski otoci”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် ၶႅၼ်ႇၼရီႇ”
  • Sicilian: “Canari”
  • Sicilian: “Canarii”
  • Sicilian: “ìsuli Canari”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli Canari”
  • Sicilian: “Isuli Canarii”
  • Sicilian: “ìsuli Canarii”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli Canarii”
  • Sinhala: “ඉස්ලාස් කැනරියාස්”
  • Sinhala: “කැනරි දූපත්”
  • Sinhala: “කැනරි”
  • Sinhala: “කැනරියා ඉන්සියුලේ”
  • Sinhala: “කැනරියාස්”
  • Slovak: “Kanárske ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Kanarski otoki”
  • Somali: “Canary Islands”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قناری آدالاری”
  • Southern Sotho: “Canarias”
  • Southern Sotho: “Canary Islands”
  • Spanish: “archipiélago canario”
  • Spanish: “Canarias”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Canaria”
  • Spanish: “Islas Afortunadas”
  • Spanish: “Islas Canarias”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵉⴳⵣⵉⵔⵉⵏ ⵜⵉⴽⵏⴰⵔⵉⵢⵉⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Kanaria”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Kanari”
  • Swedish: “Islas Canarias”
  • Swedish: “Kanarieöarna”
  • Swiss German: “Kanarische Inseln”
  • Swiss German: “Kanarischi Insle”
  • Tachelhit: “Tigzirin tiknariyin”
  • Tagalog: “Canarias”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Канар”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Канари”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Канарӣ”
  • Tamil: “கேனரி ஐலன்ட்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “கேனரி தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Канар аралдары”
  • Tatar: “Канар утраулары”
  • Telugu: “కానరీ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “కానరీ ద్వీపములు”
  • Thai: “แคว้นกานาเรียส”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะคะเนรี”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะคะแนรี”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanarische Inseln”
  • Turkish: “Kanarya Adaları”
  • Turkmen: “Kanar adalary”
  • Udmurt: “Канар шормуӵъёс”
  • Ukrainian: “Канарські острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Фізична географія Канарських островів”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kanariske kupy”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kanary”
  • Urdu: “جزائر کناری”
  • Uzbek: “Kanar orollari”
  • Venetian: “Ìxołe Canarie”
  • Venetian: “Ìzołe Canàrie”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Canaria”
  • Volapük: “Kanariyuäns”
  • Walloon: “Iyes Canareyes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Islas Canarias”
  • Welsh: “Yr Ynysoedd Dedwydd”
  • Western Frisian: “Kanaryske Eilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Канар ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “کناری جزیرے”
  • Wolof: “Duni Kanaari”
  • Wu Chinese: “加那利群岛”
  • Xhosa: “Iziqithi zeCanary”
  • Yakut: “Канаар арыылара”
  • Yakut: “Канар арыылара”
  • Yiddish: “קאנארי אינזלען”
  • Yiddish: “קאנארישע אינזלען”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùṣù Kánárì”
  • Yue Chinese: “加那利群島”
  • Zulu: “Iziqhingi iKhaneli”
  • “Canarias”
  • “Isole Canarie”
  • “Kanaru salas”

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