Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands are a chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. They constitute the main part of the country of Kiribati.
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Gilbert Islands
- Type: island group of Kiribati with 83,700 residents
- Description: chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Gilbert-Inseln”, “Gilbert-saaret”, “Gilbertova ostrva”, “Gilberts”, “Iles Gilbert”, “insulae Gilbertenses”, “KI-G”, “King’s-Mill Islands”, “Kings-Mill Islands”, “Kingsmill”, “Kingsmill Group”, “Kingsmill Islands”, “Otočje Gilbert”, “Quần đảo Kingsmill”, “Wyspy Gillberta”, “Гилберта острова”, “Гильберта острова”, “Гильбертовы острова”, “جزر جلبرت”, “キングスミル”, “キングスミル群島”, “トゥンガル”, “吉爾柏特群島”, and “骄拔群岛”
- Categories: archipelago and administrative territorial entity
- Location: Kiribati, Micronesia, Oceania
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Latitude of center
1.42° or 1° 25′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
172.984° or 172° 59′ 2″ east
Population
83,700
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Gilbert Islands” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጊልበርት ደሴቶች”
- Arabic: “جزر غيلبرت”
- Armenian: “Գիլբերտի կղզիներ”
- Azerbaijani: “Gilbert adaları”
- Basque: “Gilbert uharteak”
- Basque: “Gilbert Uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Гілберта”
- Bengali: “গিলবার্ট দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Breton: “Tungaru”
- Bulgarian: “Гилбъртови острови”
- Catalan: “Illes Gilbert”
- Cebuano: “Gilbert Islands (kapuloan)”
- Cebuano: “Gilbert Islands”
- Chechen: “Гилбертан гӀайренаш”
- Chinese: “吉尔伯特群岛”
- Chinese: “吉爾伯特群島”
- Croatian: “Gilbertovi otoci”
- Croatian: “Gilbertovo otočje”
- Czech: “Gilbertovy ostrovy”
- Danish: “Gilbertøerne”
- Dutch: “Gilberteilanden”
- Esperanto: “Gilbertoj”
- Estonian: “Gilberti saared”
- Finnish: “Gilbertsaaret”
- French: “îles Gilbert”
- French: “Îles Gilbert”
- Galician: “Illas Gilbert”
- Georgian: “გილბერტის კუნძულები”
- German: “Gilbertinseln”
- Greek: “Νησιά Γκίλμπερτ”
- Hausa: “Tsibiran Gilbert”
- Hebrew: “איי גילברט”
- Hindi: “गिल्बर्ट द्वीप समूह”
- Hindi: “गिल्बर्ट द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Gilbert-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Gilbertseyjar”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Gilbert”
- Italian: “Isole Gilbert”
- Japanese: “ギルバート諸島”
- Javanese: “Kepulauan Gilbert”
- Kannada: “ಗಿಲ್ಬರ್ಟ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Гилберт аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Гилберт аралдары”
- Korean: “길버트 제도”
- Latin: “Insulae Gilbertenses”
- Latin: “Insulae Gilbertinae”
- Latvian: “Gilberta salas”
- Limburgan: “Gilberteilenj”
- Lithuanian: “Gilberto salos”
- Macedonian: “Гилбертови Острови”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Gilbert”
- Marathi: “गिल्बर्ट द्वीपसमूह”
- Mingrelian: “გილბერტიშ კოკეფი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gilbertøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gilbertøyane”
- Norwegian: “Gilbertøyene”
- Oromo: “Galicha Gilbert”
- Panjabi: “ਗਿਲਬਰਟ ਦੀਪ”
- Persian: “جزایر گیلبرت”
- Polish: “Wyspy Gilberta”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Gilbert”
- Pushto: “د گیلبرت جزیرې”
- Russian: “Острова Гилберта”
- Serbian: “Гилбертова острва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gilbertovi otoci”
- Sinhala: “ගිල්බට් දූපත්”
- Slovak: “Gilbertove ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Gilbertovi otoki”
- Somali: “Jasiiradaha Gilbert”
- Spanish: “Islas Gilbert”
- Swahili: “Visiwa vya Gilbert”
- Swedish: “Gilbertöarna”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluang Gilbert”
- Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Гилберт”
- Tamil: “கில்பர்ட்டு தீவுக்கூட்டம்”
- Tatar: “Гилберт аралдары”
- Tatar: “Гилберт утраулары”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะกิลเบิร์ต”
- Turkish: “Gilbert Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Гілберта”
- Uzbek: “Gilbert orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Gilbert”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Gilbert”
- Western Armenian: “Կիլպըրթ կղզիներ”
- Wu Chinese: “吉尔伯特群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “驕拔群島”
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