Cook Islands
The Cook Islands are an island country in free association with New Zealand, located in Polynesia, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. It is an archipelago with 15 islands spread out over 2.2 million km2 of ocean.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Popular Destinations
Rarotonga
Rarotonga is by far the most populated of the Cook Islands and is the capital. Photo: Robert Engberg, CC BY 2.0.Aitutaki
Aitutaki is an island in the Southern Cook Islands, a 45 minute flight from the capital island of Rarotonga. Photo: Pbsouthwood, Public domain.Southern Cook Islands
The Southern Cook Islands are a loose group of mostly volcanic, hilly islands and a few coral atolls. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Palmerston Island
Palmerston Island is a coral atoll which includes five small island groups. Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Country
- Description: state in the South Pacific Ocean
- Categories: associated state, island nation and locality
- Location: Polynesia, Oceania
- Languages: English and Maori
Destinations
Northern Cook Islands
The Northern Cook Islands is one of the two chains of atolls which make up the Cook Islands. Photo: NASA, Public domain.Cook Islands
Latitude of center
-21.2382° or 21° 14' 18" southLongitude of center
-159.7752° or 159° 46' 31" westPopulation
18,600Area
240 km² (93 miles²)Elevation
125 metres (410 feet)Capital
AvaruaCurrency
Dollar (NZD)Phone code
.ckInternet domain
682OpenStreetMap ID
node 249399308GeoNames ID
1899402Also Known As
- Achinese: Pulo-pulo Cook
- Afar: Kuk atawları
- Afrikaans: Cook-eilande
- Afrikaans: Cookeilande
- Akan: Kook Nsupɔw
- Albanian: Ishujt Kuk
- Amharic: ኩክ ደሴቶች
- Arabic: Kapuropod-an Cook
- Arabic: جزر كوك
- Aragonese: Islas Cook
- Armenian: Կուկի Կղզիներ
- Armenian: Կուկի կղզիներ
- Assamese: কুক দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
- Asturian; Bable: Islles Cook
- Azerbaijani: Kuk Adaları
- Azerbaijani: Kuk adaları
- Balinese: Kapuloan Cook
- Bambara: Kuki Gun
- Bashkir: Кук утрауҙары
- Basque: Cook Uharteak
- Basque: Cook uharte
- Basque: Cook uharteak
- Belarusian: Астравы Кука
- Belarusian: Выспы Кука
- Belarusian: Кука астравы
- Bengali: কুক দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
- Bishnupriya: কোক দ্বীপমালা
- Bosnian: Cookova Ostrva
- Bosnian: Kukova Ostrva
- Bosnian: Kukova ostrva
- Bosnian: Kukovi otoci
- Breton: Inizi Cook
- Bulgarian: Кук
- Bulgarian: Кукови острови
- Bulgarian: Острови Кук
- Bulgarian: Островна група Кук
- Burmese: ကွတ်ကျွန်းစု
- Burmese: ကွတ် ကျွန်းစု
- Catalan: Illes Cook
- Catalan: illes Cook
- Cebuano: Cook Islands
- Central Bicolano: Islas Cook
- Chechen: Кукан гӀайренаш
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏍᏓᏴᎲᏍᎩ ᎤᎦᏚᏛᎢ
- Cheyenne: Cook Islands
- Chinese: Cook Kûn-tó
- Chinese: 库克群岛 / 庫克群島
- Chinese: 库克群岛
- Chinese: 庫克群島
- Chinese: 曲克群島
- Chinese: 科克群岛
- Chinese: 科克群島
- Cornish: Ynysow Cook
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Kuk Adaları
- Croatian: Cook Islands
- Croatian: Cookovi Otoci
- Croatian: Cookovo Otočje
- Croatian: Kukovi Otoci
- Czech: Cookovy ostrovy
- Czech: Herveyho ostrovy
- Czech: Mangaiské ostrovy
- Danish: Cook-Islands
- Danish: Cook-øerne
- Danish: Cook Islands
- Danish: Cookøerne
- Danish: Cook øerne
- Divehi: ކުކް ޖަޒީރާ
- Dutch: CK
- Dutch: COK
- Dutch: Cook Eilanden
- Dutch: Cook Islands
- Dutch: Cookeilanden
- Dzongkha: ཀུག་གླིང་ཚོམ
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: جزر كوك
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Cociega
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Cōcīega
- English: COK
- English: Hervey Islands
- English: ck
- Esperanto: CK
- Esperanto: Insularo Cook
- Esperanto: Kuk-Insularo
- Esperanto: Kukinsularo
- Esperanto: Kukinsuloj
- Esperanto: La Kukinsuloj
- Estonian: COK
- Estonian: Cooki saared
- Ewe: Kook ƒudomekpo nutome
- Extremaduran: Islas Cook
- Faroese: Cooksoyggjar
- Fijian Hindustani: Cook Islands
- Finnish: COK
- Finnish: Cook-saaret
- Finnish: Cookinsaaret
- Finnish: Cookin saaret
- Finnish: Cooksaaret
- Franco-Provençal: Iles Cook
- French: Archipel Cook
- French: Cook
- French: Cook Islands
- French: Iles Cook
- French: Kūki 'Āirani
- French: Îles-Cook
- French: Îles Cook
- Frisian: Cookeilannen
- Fulah: Duuɗe Kuuk
- Gaelic (Scots): Eileanan Cook
- Gagauz: Cook Adaları
- Gagauz: Cook adaları
- Gallegan: Illas Cook
- Ganda: Bizinga bya Kkuki
- Georgian: კუკის კუნძულები
- German: Cook-Inseln
- German: Cook Inseln
- German: Cook Islands
- German: Cookinseln
- German: Hervey-Inseln
- Greek: Κουκ Νήσοι
- Greek: Νήσοι Κουκ
- Guianese Creole French: Zil Cook
- Gujarati: કુક આઇલેન્ડ્સ
- Hakka Chinese: Cook Khiùn-tó
- Hausa: Cook Khiùn-tó
- Hausa: Tsibiran Kuku
- Hebrew: איי קוק
- Hindi: कुक द्वीपसमूह
- Hungarian: Cook-szigetek
- Icelandic: Cookeyjar
- Icelandic: Cooks-eyjar
- Icelandic: Cookseyjar
- Ido: Cook-Insuli
- Ido: Insuli Cook
- Igbo: Agwaetiti Cook
- Indonesian: Cook Islands
- Indonesian: Kepulauan Cook
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Insulas Cook
- Irish: Oileáin Cook
- Italian: Isole Cook
- Japanese: クック諸島
- Javanese: Kapuloan Cook
- Kalaallisut: Cook qeqertaq
- Kannada: ಕುಕ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು
- Kara-Kalpak: Kuk atawları
- Kashmiri: کُک جٔزیٖرٕ
- Kazakh: Кук аралдары
- Khmer: កោះខូក
- Kikuyu: Visiwa vya Cook
- Kinyarwanda: Ibirwa bya Kuke
- Kirghiz: Кук аралдары
- Korean: 쿡아일랜드
- Korean: 쿡 제도
- Korean: 쿡제도
- Kurdish: Giravên Cook
- Lao: ໝູ່ເກາະຄຸກ
- Latin: Insulae Cook
- Latin: Insulae de Cook
- Latvian: COK
- Latvian: Kuka Salas
- Latvian: Kuka salas
- Letzeburgesch: Cook-Inselen
- Letzeburgesch: Cookinselen
- Ligurian: Isoe Cook
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Cookeilenj
- Lingala: Bisanga bya Kookɛ
- Lithuanian: Kuko Salos
- Lithuanian: Kuko salos
- Luba-Katanga: Lutanda lua Kookɛ
- Macedonian: Кукови Острови
- Malagasy: Nosy Kook
- Malay (generic): Cook Islands
- Malay (generic): Kepulauan Cook
- Malayalam: കുക്ക് ദ്വീപുകൾ
- Malayalam: കൂക്ക് ദ്വീപുകള്
- Maltese: Gżejjer Cook
- Maori: Kuki Airani
- Maori: Ngaputoru
- Maori: Reo Māori Kūki Airani
- Maori: Te reo Māori Kuki Airani
- Maori: Te reo Māori Kūki Airani
- Marathi: कुक द्वीपसमूह
- Marathi: कुक बेटे
- Marathi: कूक द्विपे
- Marathi: कूक द्वीपसमूह
- Marathi: कूक द्वीपे
- Mazanderani: کوک جزایر
- Min Dong Chinese: Cook Gùng-dō̤
- Min Nan Chinese: Cook Kûn-tó
- Minangkabau: Kapulauan Cook
- Mingrelian: კატეგორია:კუკიშ კოკეფი
- Mongolian: Күүкийн арлууд
- Ndebele, North: Cook Islands
- Nepali: कुक टापु
- Nepali: कुक टापुहरु
- Nepali: कूक टापू
- Newari: कूक टापू
- Northern Frisian: Cook-Eilunen
- Northern Sami: Cook-sullot
- Norwegian: Cookøyene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cook-øyene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cook Islands
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cookøyene
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cook-øyane
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cook-øyene
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cook Islands
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cookøyane
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cookøyene
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Illas Cook
- Oriya: କୁକ ଆଇସଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ
- Oriya: କୁକ ଦ୍ଵୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ
- Oriya: କୁକ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ
- Oriya: କୁକ୍ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Кукы сакъадæхтæ
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Кучы сакъадæхтæ
- Pampanga: Cook Islands
- Panjabi: ਕੁੱਕ ਟਾਪੂ
- Persian: جزایر کوک
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Dem Kuuk Ailen
- Polish: Wyspy Cooka
- Portuguese: Ilhas Cook
- Portuguese: Subdivisões das ilhas cook
- Portuguese: ilhas Cook
- Pushto: کوک ټاپوګان
- Quechua: Islas Cook
- Raeto-Romance: Inslas Cook
- Romanian: Insulele Cook
- Rundi: Izinga rya Kuku
- Russian: Кука Острова
- Russian: Острова Кука
- Samoan: Atu Kuki
- Sango: âzûâ Kûku
- Schwyzerdütsch: Cookinsle
- Scots: Cook Islands
- Serbian: Кукова Острва
- Serbian: Острва Кук
- Serbo-Croatian: Cook otoci
- Serbo-Croatian: Cookovi Otoci
- Serbo-Croatian: Cookovi otoci
- Serbo-Croatian: Kukova Ostrva
- Serbo-Croatian: Kukovi otoci
- Serbo-Croatian: Ostrva Kuk
- Serbo-Croatian: Otoci Cook
- Serbo-Croatian: Кукова Острва
- Serbo-Croatian: Кукови отоци
- Shan: မူႇၵုၼ် ၶုၵ်ႈ
- Shona: Cook Islands
- Shona: Zvitsuwa zveCook
- Sicilian: Ìsuli Cook
- Sindhi: ڪوڪ ٻيٽ
- Sinhalese: කුක් දිවයින්
- Sinhalese: කුක් දූපත්
- Slovak: Cookove ostrovy
- Slovenian: Cookovi otoki
- Slovenian: Cookovo otočje
- Somali: Jasiiradda Kook
- Sorbian, Lower: Cook Islands
- Sorbian, Lower: Cookowe kupy
- Sorbian, Upper: Cookowe kupy
- South Azerbaijani: کوک آدالاری
- Spanish: Cook Islands
- Spanish: Cookiano
- Spanish: Islas Cook
- Sundanese: Kapuloan Cook
- Swahili (generic): Cook Islands
- Swahili (generic): Visiwa vya Cook
- Swedish: Cook Islands
- Swedish: Cooköarna
- Swedish: Herveyöarna
- Tagalog: Arkipelagong Cook
- Tagalog: Arkipelago ng Cook
- Tagalog: Cook Islands
- Tagalog: Isla ng Cook
- Tagalog: Kaislahan ng Cook
- Tagalog: Kapuluang Cook
- Tagalog: Mga Isla ng Cook
- Tagalog: Mga Pulo ng Cook
- Tagalog: Pulo ng Cook
- Tajik: Ҷазираҳои Кук
- Tamil: குக் தீவுகள்
- Tatar: Кук утраулары
- Telugu: కుక్ దీవులు
- Thai: หมู่เกาะคุก
- Tibetan: ཀཱུག གླིང་ཕྲེན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།
- Tibetan: ཁོ་ཁེ་གླིང་ཚོམ་
- Tibetan: ཁོ་ཁེ་གླིང་ཚོམ།
- Tigrinya: ደሴታት ኩክ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻOtumotu Kuki
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻOtu motu Kuki
- Tosk Albanian: Cookinseln
- Tunisian Spoken Arabic: جزر كوك
- Turkish: Cook Adaları
- Turkish: Cook Adası
- Turkish: Cook Islands
- Turkmen: Kuk adalary
- Udmurt: Кук шормуӵъёс
- Uighur: Kuk Taqim Aralliri
- Uighur: كۇك ئاراللىرى
- Uighur: كۇك تاقىم ئاراللىرى
- Ukrainian: Острови Кука
- Urdu: The Cook Islands
- Urdu: جزائر کک
- Urdu: کک آئلینڈز
- Uzbek: Kuk orollari
- Venetian: Isole Cook
- Venetian: Ixołe cook
- Venetian: Ìzołe Cook
- Vietnamese: Quần Đảo Cook
- Vietnamese: Quần đảo Cook
- Vietnamese: Đảo Cook
- Waray (Philippines): Cook Islands
- Waray (Philippines): Kapuropod-an Cook
- Welsh: Ynysoedd Cook
- Western Mari: Кук ошмаотывлӓ
- Wolof: Duni Kuuk
- Wolof: Dunu Kook
- Wolof: Iil yu Cook
- Wu Chinese: 曲克群島
- Yiddish: קוק אינזלען
- Yoruba: Cook Islands
- Yoruba: Etíokun Kùúkù
- Yoruba: The Cook Islands
- Yoruba: Àwọn Erékùṣù Cook
- Yue Chinese: 曲克群島
- Zhuang: Cook Ginzdauj
- Zulu: i-Cook Islands
- Cooki saarõq
- Isolas Cook
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