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Hilo

Hilo is a town on the of . The county seat and largest city in Hawaii County, Hilo is the one of the best starting points to explore the eastern half of the island, including .
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  • Type: City with 44,200 residents
  • Description: human settlement and census-designated place in Hawaii, United States
  • Also known as: “Hido”, “Hilo, Hawaii”, and “Hilo, HI”
  • Postal codes: 96720 and 96721

Places of Interest

Highlights include ʻImiloa Astronomy Center and University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens.

Planetarium
Photo: Yoshi Canopus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an astronomy and culture education center located in Hilo, . Conceived by founding Director George Jacob in 2001, it features exhibits and shows dealing with Hawaiian culture and history, astronomy, and the overlap between the two.

Garden
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The are botanical gardens on the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo campus, located at 485 W Lanikaula St, Hilo, on the island of Hawaiʻi.

Park
Photo: W Nowicki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also known as Wailoa River State Park, is a park in Hilo, on Hawaiʻi Island in the US state of . It was developed as a buffer zone following the devastating 1960 tsunami that wiped out the central bayfront district of Hilo.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waiākea and Wainaku.

Suburb
is an ancient subdivision in the Hilo District of the Big Island of Hawaiʻi and an early settlement on .

Village
Photo: Paolo Salmaso, CC BY 2.0.
is a census-designated place in Hawaiʻi County, , United States. The population was 1,147 at the 2020 census.

Hilo

Latitude
19.7074° or 19° 42′ 27″ north
Longitude
-155.0816° or 155° 4′ 54″ west
Population
44,200
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
IATA airport code
ITO
United Nations Location Code
US ITO
Open location code
73F6PW49+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21445111
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5855927
Wiki­data ID
Q216258
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hilo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hilo”
  • Arabic: “هيلو”
  • Armenian: “Հիլո”
  • Awadhi: “हीलो”
  • Basque: “Hilo”
  • Belarusian: “Гіла”
  • Belarusian: “Хіла”
  • Bengali: “হিলো”
  • Bulgarian: “Хило”
  • Catalan: “Hilo”
  • Cebuano: “Hilo”
  • Chechen: “Гило”
  • Chinese: “Hilo”
  • Chinese: “希洛”
  • Chinese: “希路”
  • Czech: “Hilo”
  • Dagbani: “Hilo”
  • Danish: “Hilo”
  • Dutch: “Hilo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيلو”
  • Esperanto: “Hilo”
  • Estonian: “Hilo”
  • Faroese: “Hilo”
  • Finnish: “Hilo”
  • French: “Baie de Hilo”
  • French: “Hilo”
  • Galician: “Hilo, Hawai”
  • Galician: “Hilo”
  • German: “Hilo”
  • Gilaki: “هیلؤ (هاوايي)”
  • Gilaki: “هیلؤ”
  • Greek: “Χίλο”
  • Gujarati: “હિલો”
  • Hawaiian: “Hilo”
  • Hebrew: “הילו”
  • Hindi: “हीलो”
  • Hungarian: “Hilo”
  • Indonesian: “Hilo, Hawaii”
  • Indonesian: “Hilo”
  • Interlingua: “Hilo”
  • Irish: “Hilo, Haváí”
  • Irish: “Hilo”
  • Italian: “Hilo”
  • Japanese: “ヒロ”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿಲೋ”
  • Korean: “힐로”
  • Ladin: “Hilo”
  • Latvian: “Hilo”
  • Lithuanian: “Hilas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hilo”
  • Malagasy: “Hilo, Hawaii”
  • Malagasy: “Hilo”
  • Malay: “Hilo”
  • Marathi: “हीलो”
  • Mazanderani: “هیلو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hilo”
  • Nauru: “Hilo”
  • Newari: “हिलो (हवाई)”
  • Newari: “हिलो, हवाई”
  • Newari: “हिलो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hilo”
  • Norwegian: “Hilo”
  • Persian: “هیلو، هاوایی”
  • Persian: “هیلو”
  • Polish: “Hilo”
  • Portuguese: “Hilo”
  • Romanian: “Hilo, Hawai’i”
  • Romanian: “Hilo”
  • Russian: “Хило”
  • Scots: “Hilo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hilo, Hawaii”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hilo”
  • Serbian: “Хајло”
  • Serbian: “Хило”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hilo, Hawaii”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hilo”
  • Sinhala: “හිලෝ”
  • Slovak: “Hilo”
  • Slovenian: “Hilo, Havaji”
  • Slovenian: “Hilo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیلو، هاوایی”
  • Spanish: “Hilo (Hawái)”
  • Spanish: “Hilo”
  • Swedish: “Hilo”
  • Talysh: “Hilo”
  • Tamil: “ஹீலோ”
  • Tatar: “Гило”
  • Telugu: “హైలో”
  • Thai: “ฮีโล”
  • Turkish: “Hilo, Hawaii”
  • Turkish: “Hilo”
  • Ukrainian: “Гіло”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіло”
  • Urdu: “ہیلو، ہوائی”
  • Urdu: “ہیلو”
  • Vietnamese: “Hilo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hilo, Hawaii”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hilo”
  • Welsh: “Hilo”
  • Yue Chinese: “Hilo”
  • Yue Chinese: “希洛”
  • Yue Chinese: “希路”

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