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Channel Islands

The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the Bay of St Malo, off the Normandy and Brittany coast of France — only Alderney the most northerly truly lies in the English Channel.
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The Bailiwick of is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the Channel Islands. is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France.

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is the largest and southernmost of the Channel Islands. It's a self-governing dependency of the British Crown, but not part of the United Kingdom.

Channel Islands

Latitude of center
49.325° or 49° 19′ 30″ north
Longitude of center
-2.3346° or 2° 20′ 5″ west
Population
164,000
Wiki­data ID
Q42314
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Channel Islands” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Channel”
  • Afrikaans: “Kanaal-eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Kanaaleilande”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt e Kanalit”
  • Arabic: “جزر القناة الإنجليزية”
  • Arabic: “جزر القنال”
  • Aragonese: “Archipielago normando”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Anglo-normandas”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Anglonormandas”
  • Aragonese: “Islas d’a Canal d’a Manga”
  • Aragonese: “Islas d’a Canal”
  • Armenian: “Նորմանդյան կղզիներ”
  • Asturian: “Islles Anglonormandes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Normand adaları”
  • Basque: “Anglo-normandar uharteak”
  • Basque: “Anglo-normandiar uharteak”
  • Basque: “Kanaleko uharteak”
  • Belarusian: “Нармандзкія астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Нармандзкія выспы”
  • Belarusian: “Нармандскія астравы”
  • Bengali: “চ্যানেল দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Kanalska ostrva”
  • Breton: “Inizi angl-ha-norman”
  • Breton: “Inizi angl-ha-normand”
  • Bulgarian: “Каналните острови”
  • Bulgarian: “Нормандски острови”
  • Catalan: “Anglonormandes”
  • Catalan: “Arxipèlag Normand”
  • Catalan: “Illes Anglo-Normandes”
  • Catalan: “illes Anglonormandes”
  • Catalan: “Illes Anglonormandes”
  • Catalan: “Illes de la Mànega”
  • Catalan: “Illes del Canal de la Mànega”
  • Catalan: “Illes Normandes”
  • Cebuano: “Channel Islands (kapuloan sa Guernsey)”
  • Cebuano: “Channel Islands”
  • Chinese: “Hái-tō Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “海峡群岛”
  • Chinese: “海峽群島”
  • Croatian: “Anglo-normandijski otoci”
  • Croatian: “Kanalski otoci”
  • Croatian: “Kanalsko otočje”
  • Czech: “Channel Islands”
  • Czech: “Normandské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Normanské ostrovy”
  • Danish: “Kanaløerne”
  • Dutch: “Kanaal Eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Kanaaleilanden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر القنال الانجليزى”
  • Esperanto: “Kanalinsuloj”
  • Esperanto: “Manikaj insuloj”
  • Esperanto: “Manikinsuloj”
  • Estonian: “Kanalisaared”
  • Extremaduran: “Islas del Canal”
  • Faroese: “Ermarsundsoyggjar”
  • Finnish: “Kanaalisaaret”
  • French: “Île anglo-normande”
  • French: “Iles Anglo-Normandes”
  • French: “îles Anglo-Normandes”
  • French: “Îles Anglo-Normandes”
  • French: “Îles de la Manche”
  • Galician: “Illas Anglo-normandas”
  • Galician: “Illas Anglonormandas”
  • Galician: “Illas da Canle - Channel Islands”
  • Galician: “Illas da Canle”
  • Galician: “Illas do Canal”
  • Georgian: “ნორმანდიის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Kanal-Inseln”
  • German: “Kanalinsel”
  • German: “Kanalinseln”
  • German: “Normannische Inseln”
  • Greek: “Αγγλονορμανδικές Νήσοι”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Channel”
  • Hebrew: “איי התעלה”
  • Hindi: “चैनल द्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Csatorna-sziget állatvilága”
  • Hungarian: “Csatorna-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Ermarsundseyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Ermasundseyjarnar”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Channel”
  • Interlingue: “Canal-Insules”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Mhuir nIocht”
  • Italian: “Isole Anglo-Normanne”
  • Italian: “Isole del Canale”
  • Italian: “Isole della Manica”
  • Japanese: “チャネル諸島”
  • Japanese: “チャンネル諸島”
  • Japanese: “海峡諸島”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Channel”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Kanal”
  • Kazakh: “Норманд аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Норманд аралдары”
  • Kölsch: “Kanalinsele”
  • Korean: “채널 제도”
  • Latin: “Insulae Normannicae”
  • Latin: “Insulae Normannorum”
  • Latvian: “Channel Islands”
  • Latvian: “Iles Anglo-Normandes”
  • Latvian: “Îles Anglo-Normandes”
  • Latvian: “Kanāla salas”
  • Latvian: “Normandijas salas”
  • Limburgan: “Kanaaleileng”
  • Limburgan: “Kenaaleilen”
  • Lithuanian: “Normandijos salos”
  • Lombard: “Isol del Canal”
  • Luxembourgish: “Channel Islands”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanalinselen”
  • Macedonian: “Каналски Острови”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Channel”
  • Malayalam: “ചാനൽ ദ്വീപുകൾ ദേശീയോദ്യാനം”
  • Manx: “Ellanyn Vooir Eeaght”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Channel Islands”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hái-tō Kûn-tó”
  • Narom: “Iles aungllo-normaundes”
  • Narom: “Îles aungllo-normaundes”
  • Narom: “Iles d’la Manche”
  • Narom: “Îles d’la Manche”
  • Narom: “Iles de la Maunche”
  • Narom: “Îles de la Maunche”
  • Narom: “Iles normaundes”
  • Narom: “Îles normaundes”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kanooleilunen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanaløyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanaløyane”
  • Norwegian: “Kanaløyene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Anglonormandas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Normandas”
  • Persian: “جزایر چنل”
  • Persian: “جزایر مانش”
  • Persian: “جزیره های چنل”
  • Persian: “جزیره های کانال مانش”
  • Persian: “جزیره های کانال”
  • Persian: “جزیره های مانش”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ های مانش”
  • Persian: “جزیره‌های چنل”
  • Persian: “جزیره‌های کانال مانش”
  • Persian: “جزیره‌های کانال”
  • Persian: “جزیره‌های مانش”
  • Picard: “Iles Inglo-Neurmindes”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Normandzkie”
  • Portuguese: “Channel Islands”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas anglo-normandas”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas da Mancha”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas do Canal”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Canalului”
  • Russian: “Нормандские острова”
  • Russian: “Нормандские”
  • Russian: “Норманские острова”
  • Russian: “Острова Канала”
  • Scots: “Channel Islands”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eileanan a‘ Chaolais”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eileanan a’ Chaolais”
  • Serbian: “Channel Islands”
  • Serbian: “Каналска острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kanalska ostrva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kanalski otoci”
  • Slovak: “Normanské ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Channel Islands”
  • Slovenian: “Kanalski otoki”
  • Spanish: “Iles Anglo Normandes”
  • Spanish: “Îles Anglo Normandes”
  • Spanish: “Iles Anglo-Normandes”
  • Spanish: “Îles Anglo-Normandes”
  • Spanish: “Islas Anglo Normandas”
  • Spanish: “Islas Anglo-Normandas”
  • Spanish: “Islas Anglonormandas”
  • Spanish: “Islas del Canal de la Mancha”
  • Spanish: “Islas del Canal”
  • Spanish: “Islas en el Canal de la Mancha”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya mfereji wa Kiingereza”
  • Swedish: “Brittiska kanalöarna”
  • Swedish: “Channel Islands”
  • Swedish: “Kanalöarna”
  • Swedish: “Normandiska öarna”
  • Tagalog: “Channel Islands”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Bambang”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Canal”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Kanal”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Channel”
  • Tamil: “கால்வாய் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “சானல் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “சானெல் தீவுகள்”
  • Thai: “Channel Islands”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะแชนแนล”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะแชเนิล”
  • Turkish: “Channel Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Kanal Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Manş Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Manş Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Нормандські острови”
  • Urdu: “رودبار جزائر”
  • Uzbek: “Normandiya orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Normandiya Orollari”
  • Venetian: “Alderney”
  • Venetian: “Guernsey”
  • Venetian: “Isole del Canale”
  • Venetian: “Ìxołe del Canal”
  • Venetian: “Ìxołe del Canałe”
  • Venetian: “Ìzołe del Canałe”
  • Venetian: “Jersey”
  • Vietnamese: “Channel Islands”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Eo Biển”
  • Vlaams: “Kanoaleilandn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Channel”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd y Sianel”
  • Wu Chinese: “海峡群岛”
  • Yiddish: “קאנאל-אינזלען”
  • Yue Chinese: “海峽群島”

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