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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands consist of two main islands and several hundred smaller islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, off the east coast of southern .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Stanley and Goose Green.

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, formerly known as Port , is the capital of the Falkland Islands. This city was founded in 1843, and as of 2016 the town had about 2,500 inhabitants, about three-quarters of the archipelago's inhabitants.

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is a small settlement on the island of East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. The settlement became the centre of the Falkland Islands Company's sheep holdings in 1922, and was the site of the Battle of during the Falklands War.

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is located in the northern part of the Falkland Islands. It is a working sheep farm, but also one of the premier wildlife destinations in the Falklands.

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is a small settlement on the island of West Falkland in the Falkland Islands. The settlement is the centre of a 200,000 acre sheep farm, with twenty permanent human residents and over 42,000 sheep.

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is in the western part of the Falkland Islands, nearly 150 miles from . From 1977 to 2006 the island was divided into two properties: South, managed and run as a nature reserve by the South Conservation Trust; and North, run by Tony Chater.

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is in the northern portion of the Falkland Islands. The island is comprised of 22,000 acres and has a total length of twenty-four miles, making it the third largest offshore island in the Falklands.

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is in the northwestern portion of the Falkland Islands. It is a favourite of birders as it is one of the only islands in the country with no introduced rats, cats, or other predatory animals, so land-breeding birds have not been affected.

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is one of the Falkland Islands, lying in the north-west corner of the archipelago. It has an area of 1,469 hectares and boasts some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in the Falklands.

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is the southernmost inhabited island in the Falkland Islands, approximately 10 mi south of mainland East Falkland. The island has a total area of 2236 acres, and is 5 mi in length.

is the largest settlement in Lafonia, the southern peninsula of East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. Surrounded by lowlying grasslands, this is the residential heart of Farm, a 277,000-acre sheep ranch.

Falkland Islands

  • Type: Country with 2,960 residents
  • Description: archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, and a British Overseas Territory, disputed by Argentina
  • Also known as: “Colony of the Falkland Islands”, “Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)”, “Falkland Islands (Malvinas)”, “Falklands”, “FK”, “FLK”, “Islas Malvinas”, “Malvinas Islands”, “the Falklands”, and “福克兰群岛（马尔维纳斯）”
  • Language: English
  • Categories: British overseas territory, crown colony, disputed territory, and locality
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
-51.75° or 51° 45′ south
Longitude of center
-59° or 59° west
Population
2,960
Area
4,700 miles² (12,173 km²)
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
Capital
Stanley
Currency
Pound (FKP)
Phone code
.fk
Internet domain
500
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311237
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3474414
Wiki­data ID
Q9648
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Falkland Islands” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Falkland”
  • Afrikaans: “Falkland-eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Falklandeilande”
  • Akan: “Fɔlkman Aeland”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Falkland”
  • Amharic: “የፎክላንድ ደሴቶች”
  • Amharic: “ፋልክላንድ ደሴቶች”
  • Angika: “फॉकलैण्ड”
  • Arabic: “جزر الفولكلاند”
  • Arabic: “جزر فوكلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Malvinas”
  • Armenian: “Ֆոլկլենդյան կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Ֆոլքլենդյան կղզիներ”
  • Assamese: “ফকলেণ্ড দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Asturian: “Falklands Islands”
  • Asturian: “Islles Malvines”
  • Asturian: “Malvines”
  • Awadhi: “फ़ॉकलैंड द्वीपसमूह”
  • Azerbaijani: “Folklend adaları”
  • Balinese: “Kapuloan Falkland”
  • Bambara: “Maluwini Gun”
  • Bashkir: “Фолкленд утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Falkland uharteak (Malvina uharteak)”
  • Basque: “Falkland uharteak”
  • Basque: “Falklandak”
  • Bavarian: “Foiklandinsln”
  • Belarusian: “Мальвіны”
  • Belarusian: “Фалклендскія астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Фолклэндзкія астравы”
  • Bengali: “ফকল্যান্ড দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফ্লাকল্যান্ড দ্বীপমালা”
  • Bosnian: “Falklandska ostrva”
  • Bosnian: “Folklandska ostrva”
  • Bosnian: “Folklandska Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Inizi Falkland (Inizi Maloù)”
  • Breton: “Inizi Falkland”
  • Breton: “Inizi Maloù”
  • Bulgarian: “Фолкландски острови”
  • Burmese: “ဖော့ကလန် ကျွန်းစု”
  • Burmese: “ဖောက်ကလန် ကျွန်းစု”
  • Catalan: “illes Falkland”
  • Catalan: “illes Malvines”
  • Catalan: “Illes Malvines”
  • Cebuano: “Falkland Islands (kapuloan sa Kapupud-ang Falkland)”
  • Cebuano: “Falkland Islands”
  • Cebuano: “Kapupud-ang Falkland”
  • Central Bikol: “Islang Falkland”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی فۆڵکلاند”
  • Chechen: “Фолклендан гӀайренаш”
  • Chinese: “Falkland Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “福克兰群岛 / 福克蘭群島”
  • Chinese: “福克兰群岛”
  • Chinese: “福克蘭羣島”
  • Chinese: “福克蘭群島”
  • Chinese: “馬爾維納斯群島”
  • Chinese: “马尔维纳斯群岛”
  • Chinese: “马岛”
  • Cornish: “Ynysow Falkland”
  • Corsican: “Isuli Falkland”
  • Corsican: “Isuli Malvini”
  • Croatian: “Falklandski otoci”
  • Czech: “Falklandské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Falklandy (Malvíny)”
  • Czech: “Falklandy”
  • Czech: “Malvíny”
  • Danish: “Falklandsøerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ފޯލްކުލޭންޑު ޖަޒީރާ”
  • Dotyali: “फकल्याण्ड टापु”
  • Dutch: “Falklandeilanden”
  • Dutch: “FK”
  • Dutch: “FLK”
  • Dzongkha: “ཕལྐ་ལནྜ་གླིང་ཚོམ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر فوكلاند”
  • Esperanto: “Falklandoj”
  • Esperanto: “Insuloj Falklandoj”
  • Esperanto: “Insuloj Malvinas”
  • Estonian: “Falklandi saared”
  • Ewe: “Falkland ƒudomekpowo nutome”
  • Faroese: “Falklandsoyggjar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Falkland Islands”
  • Finnish: “Falklandinsaaret”
  • French: “Falkland”
  • French: “îles Falkland”
  • French: “Îles Falkland”
  • French: “Îles Malouines (Îles Falkland)”
  • French: “îles Malouines”
  • French: “Îles Malouines”
  • French: “Malouines”
  • Fulah: “Duuɗe Falkland”
  • Gagauz: “Falkland Adaları”
  • Galician: “Illas Malvinas”
  • Ganda: “Bizinga by’eFalikalandi”
  • Georgian: “ფალკლენდის კუნძულები”
  • Georgian: “ფოლკლენდის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Falklandinseln”
  • German: “Islas Malvinas”
  • Greek: “Μαλβίνες”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Φόκλαντ”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Φώκλαντ”
  • Greek: “Φόκλαντ”
  • Greek: “Φώκλαντ”
  • Guarani: “Ypa’ũnguéra Malvina”
  • Guarani: “Ypa’ũnguéra Malvína”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil Malwin”
  • Gujarati: “ફૉકલેન્ડ આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Gujarati: “ફૉકલેન્ડ ટાપુઓ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Falkland Khiùn-tó”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fuk-khiet-làn khiùn-tó”
  • Hausa: “Tsibiran Falkilan”
  • Hebrew: “איי פוקלנד (מלווינס)”
  • Hebrew: “איי פוקלנד”
  • Hindi: “फ़ॉकलैंड आइलैंड (इज्लास माल्विनास)”
  • Hindi: “फ़ॉकलैंड द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Falkland-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Falklandseyjar”
  • Ido: “Falklandi”
  • Igbo: “Agwaetiti Falkland”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Falkland”
  • Interlingua: “Insulas Falkland”
  • Interlingua: “Malvinas”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Fháclainne”
  • Italian: “Isole Falkland (Isole Malvine)”
  • Italian: “Isole Falkland”
  • Italian: “Isole Malvine”
  • Japanese: “フォークランド諸島 (マルビナス諸島)”
  • Japanese: “フォークランド諸島”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Falkland”
  • Kabardian: “Фолклэнд тӀыгухэр”
  • Kabardian: “Фолклэнд хы тӀыгухэр”
  • Kalaallisut: “Falklandi qeqertaq”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಕ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಕ್‌ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಲ್ಕ್‌ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು (ಇಸ್ಲಾಸ್ ಮಾಲ್ವಿನಸ್)”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Folklend atawları”
  • Kashmiri: “فٕلاکلینڑ جٔزیٖرٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Фолкленд аралдары”
  • Khmer: “កោះ​ហ្វក់ឡែន”
  • Kikuyu: “Visiwa vya Falkland”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kamalbinahan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ibirwa bya Folukilande”
  • Kirghiz: “Фолкленд аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Фолкленд”
  • Korean: “fk”
  • Korean: “flk”
  • Korean: “말비나스 제도”
  • Korean: “말비나스”
  • Korean: “포클랜드 제도 (말비나스 군도)”
  • Korean: “포클랜드 제도”
  • Korean: “포클랜드”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Malvîn”
  • Ladin: “Ijules Falkland”
  • Lao: “ຫມູ່ເກາະຟອກແລນ”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະມາລູວີນ”
  • Latin: “Falklandia”
  • Latin: “Insulae Malvinae”
  • Latvian: “Folklenda salas”
  • Latvian: “Folklenda Salas”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Falkland”
  • Limburgan: “Falklandeilen”
  • Lingala: “Bisanga bya Maluni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Falkland”
  • Literary Chinese: “福克蘭群島”
  • Lithuanian: “Falklando salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Folklando (Malvinų) Salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Folklando Salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Folklendo salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Malvinų salos”
  • Lombard: “Isol Falkland”
  • Low German: “Falklandinseln”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Falklandy”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Lutanda lua Maluni”
  • Luxembourgish: “Falkland Inselen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Falklandinselen”
  • Macedonian: “Фолкландски Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Falkand”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Falklands”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Falkland”
  • Malayalam: “ഫാക്ക്‌ലാന്റ് ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോക്ക്‌ലാന്റ് ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Falkland”
  • Maltese: “Il-Falklands”
  • Maltese: “il-Gżejjer Falkland”
  • Maltese: “Malvinas”
  • Manx: “Ellanyn Falkland”
  • Manx: “Falkland Islands”
  • Manx: “Falklands”
  • Manx: “Islas Malvinas”
  • Manx: “Malvinas”
  • Manx: “ny Malveenaghyn”
  • Manx: “Ny Malveenaghyn”
  • Maori: “ngā Moutere Falkland”
  • Marathi: “फॉकलंड द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “फॉकलंड बेटे”
  • Mazanderani: “فالکلند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Falkland Gùng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Falkland Kûn-tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Falkland”
  • Mingrelian: “ფოლკლენდიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mongolian: “Фолклендийн арлууд”
  • Mongolian: “Фолклендын арлууд”
  • Narom: “Îles Falkland”
  • Nepali: “फकल्याण्ड टापु”
  • Nepali: “फकल्याण्ड टापुहरु”
  • Nepali: “फल्कल्यान्ड टापु”
  • North Ndebele: “Falkland Islands”
  • Northern Frisian: “Falkland Eilunen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Falkland-Eilunen”
  • Northern Luri: “میناڤە یا فالکئلأند”
  • Northern Sami: “Falklandsullot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falklandsøyene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malvinas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falklandsøyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malvinas”
  • Norwegian: “Falklandsøyene”
  • Novial: “Falklande Isles”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Malvinas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Folcland Īegland”
  • Oriya: “ଫକ୍‌ଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ ଦ୍ଵୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “ଫଲ୍‌କ୍‌ଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ ଦ୍ଵୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “ଫଲ୍‌କ୍‌ଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Фолкленды сакъадæхтæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਾਕਲੈਂਡ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Falkland”
  • Persian: “جزایر فالکلند”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Falkland Ailen”
  • Polish: “Falklandy (Malwiny)”
  • Polish: “Falklandy”
  • Polish: “Malwiny”
  • Portuguese: “Falklands”
  • Portuguese: “FK”
  • Portuguese: “FLK”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Falkland”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Malvinas”
  • Portuguese: “Islas Malvinas”
  • Portuguese: “Malvinas”
  • Pushto: “فاکلينډ ټاپوګان”
  • Pushto: “فالکلينډ ټاپوګان”
  • Quechua: “Islas Malvinas”
  • Quechua: “Malwina wat’akuna”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Falkland”
  • Romansh: “Inslas Falkland”
  • Rundi: “Izinga rya Filikilandi”
  • Russian: “Мальвинские острова”
  • Russian: “Мальвины”
  • Russian: “Фолклендские Oстрова”
  • Russian: “Фолклендские о-ва”
  • Russian: “Фолклендские острова”
  • Russian: “Фолкленды”
  • Samogitian: “Malvėnu salas”
  • Sango: “Âzûâ tî Mälüîni”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsulas Falkland”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsulas Malvinas”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Falklound-Ailounde”
  • Scots: “falkland islands”
  • Scots: “Fauklan Isles”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Fàclainn”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Fàclannach”
  • Serbian: “Фокландска (Малвинска) Острва”
  • Serbian: “Фокландска острва”
  • Serbian: “Фолкландска острва”
  • Serbian: “Фолкландска Острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Falklandi”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် ၾွၵ်ႉလႅၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Zvitsuwa zveFalklands”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli Falkland”
  • Sindhi: “فاڪ لينڊ ٻيٽ”
  • Sindhi: “فاڪلينڊز”
  • Sinhala: “ෆෝක්ලන්ත දූපත්”
  • Slovak: “Falklandské ostrovy”
  • Slovak: “Falklandy”
  • Slovenian: “Falkland Islands”
  • Slovenian: “Falklandi”
  • Slovenian: “Falklands”
  • Slovenian: “Falklandski otoki”
  • Slovenian: “FK”
  • Slovenian: “FLK”
  • Slovenian: “Islas Malvinas”
  • Slovenian: “Malvini”
  • Slovenian: “Malvinski otoki”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradaha Fookland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فالکلاند آدالاری”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فالکلند آدالاری”
  • Spanish: “Islas Falkland (Malvinas)”
  • Spanish: “Islas Falklands”
  • Spanish: “Islas Malvinas”
  • Spanish: “Malvinas”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Falkland”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Falkland”
  • Swedish: “Falkland Islands (öar i Falklandsöarna)”
  • Swedish: “Falklandsöarna”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Falkland”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Фолкланд”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Фолкленд”
  • Talysh: “Folklend”
  • Talysh: “Folklendi ləpəkon”
  • Tamil: “ஃபாக்லாந்து தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “பால்க்லாண்ட் இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “போக்லாந்து தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Фолкленд утраулары”
  • Telugu: “ఫాక్లాండ్ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “ఫాక్‌ల్యాండ్ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “ఫాల్క్లాండ్ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “ఫాల్క్‌లాండ్ దీవులు”
  • Thai: “เขตวาวู อาโทลล์”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะฟอล์กแลนด์”
  • Tibetan: “ཕལྐ་ལནྜ་གླིང་ཕྲན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ደሴታት ፎክላንድ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Fokulani”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Malivina”
  • Turkish: “Falkland Adaları”
  • Turkmen: “Folklend adalary”
  • Udmurt: “Фолкленд шормуӵъёс”
  • Uighur: “فالكلاند ئاراللىرى”
  • Uighur: “فالكلاند تاقىم ئاراللىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Falkland Islands”
  • Ukrainian: “Islas Malvinas”
  • Ukrainian: “Фолклендські острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Фолклендські Острови”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Falklandske kupy”
  • Urdu: “جزائر فاکلینڈ”
  • Urdu: “فاکلینڈ جزائر”
  • Uzbek: “Folklend orollari”
  • Venetian: “ìzołe Falkland”
  • Venetian: “ìzołe Malvine”
  • Venetian: “Ìzołe Malvine”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Falkland”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần Đảo Falkland”
  • Vlaams: “Falklandeilandn”
  • Volapük: “Falkluäns”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropud-an Falkland”
  • Welsh: “y Malvinas”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Falkland”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd y Falkland/Malvinas”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd y Falklands”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd y Malvinas”
  • Western Frisian: “Falklâneilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Фолкленд ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “فاکلینڈ جزیرے”
  • Wolof: “Duni Falkland”
  • Wolof: “Dunu Falkland”
  • Wu Chinese: “富克朗特群岛”
  • Wu Chinese: “福克兰群岛”
  • Yakut: “Фолклэнд арыылара”
  • Yiddish: “פאלקלאנד אינזלען”
  • Yiddish: “פֿאַלקלאַנד אינזלען”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùṣù Falkland”
  • Yoruba: “Etikun Fakalandi”
  • Yue Chinese: “福克蘭羣島”
  • Zulu: “i-Falkland Islands”
  • Zulu: “Iziqhingi weFalkland”
  • “Falklanda salas”
  • “FK”
  • “FLK”
  • “Kepulauan Falkland”
  • “ma Pokulan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Falkland Islands”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.