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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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is the largest and by far the most populated of the Cook Islands, and is known as 'Raro'. It is the easiest to get to, with direct international flights from several countries, and has the most attractions and acccommodation of the islands.

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is an island in the . lagoon and its islands are breathtakingly beautiful. The classic picture postcard of small palm tree fringed tropical island, with shallow, warm turquoise waters, corals, tropical fish and blue skies is taken here.

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is a coral atoll which includes five small island groups. It is one of the . It has no airstrip; access is by sea only.

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The are a loose group of mostly volcanic, hilly islands and a few coral atolls. It is home to most of the islands' population, and to its capital and largest town, Avarua.

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The are a loose group of low, coral atolls that see little tourism. The are separated from the Southern Cook Islands by a wide stretch of the Pacific Ocean, with the nearest part of the Southern chain being Palmerston Island, 500 km due south of Suwarrow.
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Cook Islands

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
.ck
Internet domain
682
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: “Cook-eilande”
  • 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 uharte”
  • Basque: “Cook uharteak”
  • 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: “Cook Islands”
  • Breton: “Cook”
  • Breton: “Enezeg Cook”
  • Breton: “Inizi Cook”
  • Breton: “Kūki ‘Āirani”
  • Bulgarian: “Кук”
  • Bulgarian: “Кукови острови”
  • Bulgarian: “Острови Кук”
  • Bulgarian: “Островна група 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: “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”
  • Corsican: “Isule Cook”
  • 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: “Cook-øerne”
  • Danish: “Cookøerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ކުކް ޖަޒީރާ”
  • Dutch: “CK”
  • Dutch: “COK”
  • Dutch: “Cook Eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Cook Islands”
  • Dutch: “Cookeilanden”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀུག་གླིང་ཚོམ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر كوك”
  • 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”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Cook Islands”
  • Finnish: “COK”
  • Finnish: “Cook-saaret”
  • Finnish: “Cookin saaret”
  • Finnish: “Cookinsaaret”
  • Finnish: “Cooksaaret”
  • French: “Archipel Cook”
  • French: “Cook Islands”
  • French: “Cook”
  • French: “Iles Cook”
  • French: “Îles Cook”
  • French: “Îles-Cook”
  • French: “Kūki ‘Āirani”
  • Fulah: “Duuɗe Kuuk”
  • Gagauz: “Cook adaları”
  • Gagauz: “Cook Adaları”
  • Galician: “Illas Cook”
  • Ganda: “Bizinga bya Kkuki”
  • Georgian: “კუკის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Cook Inseln”
  • German: “Cook Islands”
  • German: “Cook-Inseln”
  • German: “Cookinseln”
  • German: “Hervey-Inseln”
  • Greek: “Κουκ Νήσοι”
  • 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: “Cook Islands”
  • 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: “쿡아일랜드”
  • Korean: “쿡제도”
  • Kotava: “Kukia”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Cook”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະກຸກ”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະຄຸກ”
  • Latin: “Insulae Cook”
  • Latin: “Insulae de Cook”
  • Latvian: “COK”
  • 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”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Cook Islands”
  • 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”
  • 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: “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: “Cook Islands”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cook-øyene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cookøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cook Islands”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cook-øyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cook-øyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cookøyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cookøyene”
  • 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: “Кукы сакъадæхтæ”
  • 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: “Кука Острова”
  • Russian: “Острова Кука”
  • Samoan: “Atu Kuki”
  • Sango: “âzûâ Kûku”
  • Scots: “Cook Islands”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eileanan Cook”
  • Serbian: “ck”
  • 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”
  • Silesian: “Wyspy Cooka”
  • 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: “Cook Islands”
  • Spanish: “Cookiano”
  • Spanish: “Islas Cook”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵉⴳⵣⵉⵔⵉⵏ ⵏ ⴽⵓⴽ”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Cook”
  • Swahili: “Cook Islands”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Cook”
  • Swedish: “Cook Islands”
  • Swedish: “Cooköarna”
  • Swedish: “Herveyöarna”
  • Swiss German: “Cookinsle”
  • Tachelhit: “Tigzirin n Kuk”
  • Tagalog: “Arkipelago ng Cook”
  • Tagalog: “Arkipelagong 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): “ʻOtu motu Kuki”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Kuki”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Cookinseln”
  • Tunisian 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”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cookowe kupy”
  • Urdu: “The Cook Islands”
  • Urdu: “جزائر کک”
  • Urdu: “کک آئلینڈز”
  • Uzbek: “Kuk orollari”
  • Venetian: “Isole Cook”
  • Venetian: “Ixołe cook”
  • Venetian: “Ìzołe Cook”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Cook”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Cook”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần Đảo Cook”
  • Võro: “Cooki saarõq”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cook Islands”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Cook”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Cook”
  • Western Frisian: “Cookeilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Кук ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Wolof: “Duni Kuuk”
  • Wolof: “Dunu Kook”
  • Wolof: “Iil yu Cook”
  • Wu Chinese: “库克群岛”
  • Wu Chinese: “曲克群島”
  • Yiddish: “קוק אינזלען”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùṣù Cook”
  • Yoruba: “Cook Islands”
  • Yoruba: “Etíokun Kùúkù”
  • Yoruba: “The Cook Islands”
  • Yue Chinese: “曲克群島”
  • Zhuang: “Cook Ginzdauj”
  • Zulu: “i-Cook Islands”
  • “CK”
  • “COK”
  • “Cooki saarõq”

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