Cook Islands

The Cook Islands is an island country in free association with , located in , in the middle of the . It is an archipelago of 15 islands spread over 2.2 million km2 of ocean.
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Top destinations: Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

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is the largest and by far the most populated of the Cook Islands, and is known as 'Raro'.

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is an island in the .

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is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga.

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The are a loose group of mostly…

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The are a loose group of low, coral atolls that see little tourism.
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Cook Islands

  • Type: Country with 18,600 residents
  • Description: country in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Archipel Cook”, “Arkipelago ng Cook”, “Arkipelagong Cook”, “ck”, “CK”, “COK”, “Cook”, “Cook Adası”, “Cook Eilanden”, “Cook Group”, “Cook Inseln”, “Cook øerne”, “Cook otoci”, “Cook uharte”, “Cook-eilande”, “Cook-Islands”, “Cook-øyane”, “Cook-øyene”, “Cook-saaret”, “Cookin saaret”, “Cookovi otoci”, “Cooksaaret”, “Enezeg Cook”, “Hervey Islands”, “Hervey-Inseln”, “Herveyho ostrovy”, “Herveyöarna”, “Iil yu Cook”, “Îles-Cook”, “Insularo Cook”, “Isla ng Cook”, “Ixołe cook”, “Kaislahan ng Cook”, “Kuk-Insularo”, “Kūki ʻĀirani”, “Kukinsularo”, “Kukovi otoci”, “Kukovi Otoci”, “La Kukinsuloj”, “Mangaiské ostrovy”, “Mga Isla ng Cook”, “Mga Pulo ng Cook”, “Ngaputoru”, “Ostrva Kuk”, “Otoci Cook”, “Pulo ng Cook”, “Reo Māori Kūki Airani”, “Te reo Māori Kuki Airani”, “Te reo Māori Kūki Airani”, “The Cook Islands”, “Κουκ Νήσοι”, “Выспы Кука”, “Кука Острова”, “Кукови острови”, “Кукови отоци”, “Кукы сакъадæхтæ”, “Острва Кук”, “Островна група Кук”, “კუკიშ კოკეფიშ ბუნა”, “ჰერვიშ კოკეფი”, “كۇك تاقىم ئاراللىرى”, “कूक द्विपे”, “कूक द्वीपे”, “ཁོ་ཁེ་གླིང་ཚོམ་”, “쿡아일랜드”, “科克群岛”, and “科克群島”
  • Languages: English and Maori
  • Categories: associated state, island country, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
-21.2382° or 21° 14′ 18″ south
Longitude of center
-159.7752° or 159° 46′ 31″ west
Population
18,600
Area
240 km² (93 miles²)
Elevation
125 metres (410 feet)
Capital
Avarua
Currency
Dollar (NZD)
Phone code
682
Internet domain
.ck
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399308
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1899402
Wiki­data ID
Q26988
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Cook Islands” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Cook”
  • Afrikaans: “Cookeilande”
  • Akan: “Kook Nsupɔw”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Kuk”
  • Amharic: “ኩክ ደሴቶች”
  • Angika: “कुक द्वीपसमूह”
  • Arabic: “جزر كوك”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Cook”
  • Armenian: “Կուկի կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Կուկի Կղզիներ”
  • Arpitan: “Iles Cook”
  • Assamese: “কুক দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Asturian: “Islles Cook”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuk adaları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuk Adaları”
  • Balinese: “Kapuloan Cook”
  • Bambara: “Kuki Gun”
  • Bashkir: “Кук утрауҙары”
  • Bashkir: “Кук Утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Cook uharteak”
  • Basque: “Cook Uharteak”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Кука”
  • Belarusian: “Кука астравы”
  • Bengali: “কুক দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোক দ্বীপমালা”
  • Bosnian: “Cookova Ostrva”
  • Bosnian: “Kukova ostrva”
  • Bosnian: “Kukova Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Inizi Cook”
  • Bulgarian: “Кук”
  • Bulgarian: “Острови Кук”
  • Burmese: “ကွတ် ကျွန်းစု”
  • Burmese: “ကွတ်ကျွန်းစု”
  • Catalan: “illes Cook”
  • Catalan: “Illes Cook”
  • Cebuano: “Cook Islands”
  • Central Bikol: “Islas Cook”
  • Chechen: “Кукан гӀайренаш”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏓᏍᏓᏴᎲᏍᎩ ᎤᎦᏚᏛᎢ”
  • Cheyenne: “Cook Islands”
  • Chinese: “库克群岛 / 庫克群島”
  • Chinese: “库克群岛”
  • Chinese: “庫克群島”
  • Cornish: “Ynysow Cook”
  • Corsican: “Isule Cook”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kuk Adaları”
  • Croatian: “Cookovi Otoci”
  • Croatian: “Cookovo Otočje”
  • Czech: “Cookovy ostrovy”
  • Danish: “Cook-øerne”
  • Danish: “Cookøerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ކުކް ޖަޒީރާ”
  • Dutch: “Cookeilanden”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀུག་གླིང་ཚོམ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر كوك”
  • Esperanto: “Kukinsuloj”
  • Estonian: “Cooki saared”
  • Ewe: “Kook ƒudomekpo nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Islas Cook”
  • Faroese: “Cooksoyggjar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Cook Islands”
  • Finnish: “Cookinsaaret”
  • French: “Iles Cook”
  • French: “Îles Cook”
  • Fulah: “Duuɗe Kuuk”
  • Gagauz: “Cook adaları”
  • Gagauz: “Cook Adaları”
  • Galician: “Illas Cook”
  • Ganda: “Bizinga bya Kkuki”
  • Georgian: “კუკის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Cook-Inseln”
  • German: “Cookinseln”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Κουκ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil Cook”
  • Gujarati: “કુક આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Il Kouk”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cook Khiùn-tó”
  • Hausa: “Tsibiran Kuku”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Cook”
  • 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: “Kepulauan Cook”
  • Interlingua: “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: “កោះ​ខូក”
  • Kikuyu: “Visiwa vya Cook”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ibirwa bya Kuke”
  • Kirghiz: “Кук аралдары”
  • Korean: “쿡 제도”
  • Korean: “쿡제도”
  • Kotava: “Kukia”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Cook”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະກຸກ”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະຄຸກ”
  • Latin: “Insulae Cook”
  • Latin: “Insulae de Cook”
  • Latvian: “Kuka salas”
  • Latvian: “Kuka Salas”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Cook”
  • Limburgan: “Cookeilenj”
  • Lingala: “Bisanga bya Kookɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Cook”
  • Literary Chinese: “庫克群島”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuko salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuko Salos”
  • Livvi: “Kukan suaret”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Cookowe kupy”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Lutanda lua Kookɛ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cook-Inselen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cookinselen”
  • Macedonian: “Кукови Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Koky”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Kook”
  • Malay: “Cook Islands”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Cook”
  • Malayalam: “കുക്ക് ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Malayalam: “കൂക്ക് ദ്വീപുകള്‍”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Cook”
  • Maori: “Kuki Airani”
  • Marathi: “कुक बेटे”
  • Marathi: “कूक द्वीपसमूह”
  • Mazanderani: “کوک جزایر”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cook Gùng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cook Kûn-tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Cook”
  • Mingrelian: “კუკიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mongolian: “Күүкийн арлууд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڭزاير كوك”
  • Nauru: “Eben Kuk”
  • Nepali: “कुक टापु”
  • Nepali: “कुक टापुहरु”
  • Newari: “कूक टापू”
  • North Ndebele: “Cook Islands”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cook Eilunen”
  • Northern Sami: “Cook-sullot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cookøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cookøyane”
  • Norwegian: “Cookøyene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Cook”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cociega”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cōcīega”
  • Oriya: “କୁକ ଆଇସଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ”
  • Oriya: “କୁକ ଦ୍ଵୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “କୁକ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “କୁକ୍‌ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Кучы сакъадæхтæ”
  • Pampanga: “Cook Islands”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁੱਕ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Penrhyn: “Kūki ‘Āirani”
  • Persian: “جزایر کوک”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Dem Kuuk Ailen”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Cooka”
  • Portuguese: “ilhas Cook”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Cook”
  • Pushto: “کوک ټاپوګان”
  • Quechua: “Islas Cook”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Cook”
  • Romansh: “Inslas Cook”
  • Rundi: “Izinga rya Kuku”
  • Russian: “Острова Кука”
  • Samoan: “Atu Kuki”
  • Sango: “âzûâ Kûku”
  • Scots: “Cook Islands”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eileanan Cook”
  • Serbian: “Кукова Острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cookovi Otoci”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kukova Ostrva”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် ၶုၵ်ႈ”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ်ၶုၵ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Cook Islands”
  • Shona: “Zvitsuwa zveCook”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli Cook”
  • Silesian: “Wyspy Cooka”
  • Sindhi: “ڪڪ آئيلينڊز”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوڪ ٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “කුක් දිවයින්”
  • Sinhala: “කුක් දූපත්”
  • Slovak: “Cookove ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Cookovi otoki”
  • Slovenian: “Cookovo otočje”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradda Kook”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوک آدالاری”
  • Spanish: “Islas Cook”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵉⴳⵣⵉⵔⵉⵏ ⵏ ⴽⵓⴽ”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Cook”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Cook”
  • Swedish: “Cooköarna”
  • Swiss German: “Cookinseln”
  • Swiss German: “Cookinsle”
  • Tachelhit: “Tigzirin n Kuk”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang 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།”
  • Tigrinya: “ደሴታት ኩክ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtu motu Kuki”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Kuki”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “جزر كوك”
  • Turkish: “Cook Adaları”
  • Turkmen: “Kuk adalary”
  • Udmurt: “Кук шормуӵъёс”
  • Uighur: “Kuk Taqim Aralliri”
  • Uighur: “كۇك ئاراللىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Кука”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cookowe kupy”
  • Urdu: “جزائر کک”
  • Urdu: “کک آئلینڈز”
  • Uzbek: “Kuk orollari”
  • Venetian: “Isole Cook”
  • Venetian: “Ìzołe Cook”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Cook”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Cook”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần Đảo Cook”
  • Võro: “Cooki saarõq”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Cook”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Cook”
  • Western Armenian: “Գուք կղզիներ”
  • Western Frisian: “Cookeilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Кук ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Wolof: “Duni Kuuk”
  • Wolof: “Dunu Kook”
  • Wu Chinese: “库克群岛”
  • Wu Chinese: “曲克群島”
  • Yakut: “Кук Арыылара”
  • Yiddish: “קוק אינזלען”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùṣù Cook”
  • Yoruba: “Etíokun Kùúkù”
  • Yue Chinese: “曲克群島”
  • Zhuang: “Cook Ginzdauj”
  • Zulu: “i-Cook Islands”

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