Hispaniola
Hispaniola is a Caribbean island that was explored and claimed by Columbus on his first voyage in 1492 and became a springboard for Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and the American mainland.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Island with 21,100,000 residents
- Description: island in the Caribbean
- Also known as: “Aïtí”, “Ayiti”, “Bohio”, “Cap Carcasse”, “Espanhola”, “Espanjola”, “Espanola”, “Espaņola”, “Haičio sala”, “Haiti sala”, “Hayti”, “Hispaniola Island”, “Hispaniola-tó”, “Hispanjolo”, “Hispanola”, “Hispaňola”, “Hispanolia”, “Île d’Haïti”, “Île d’Hispaniola”, “Île de Saint-Domingue”, “Ilha de Hispaniola”, “Ilha de Santo Domingo”, “Ilha Espanhola”, “Ilha Española”, “Ilha Hispaniola”, “Illa espanyola”, “Isla Espanola”, “Isla Española”, “Isla Espanyola”, “Isla la Espanola”, “Isla La Española”, “Island of Hispaniola”, “Island of Santo Domingo”, “Isola di Santo Domingo”, “Ispanjola”, “Ispanyola”, “Kiskeya”, “Kleinspanien”, “L’Espanyola”, “La Espanola”, “La Espanyola”, “La Hispaniola”, “La Isla Espanola”, “La Isla Española”, “Øya Haiti”, “Quisquella”, “Quisqueya”, “Republika Dominikana”, “Saint Domingue”, “San Domingo”, “Sant Domingue”, “Spanische Insel”, “Гішпаньёля”, “Еспаньйола”, “Еспањола”, “Іспаньйола”, “Кіскея”, “Острів Еспаньйола”, “Санта-Дамінга”, “Санто-Доминго”, “Эспаньёла”, “Эспаньёля”, “Эспаньолæ”, “Эспаньола”, “Эспаньоло”, “ისპანიოლა”, “Էսպանիոլ”, “Հիսպանիոլ”, “אספניולה”, “جزیره هیسپانیولا”, “جزیرهٔ هیسپانیولا”, “هسبانيولا”, “இஸ்பனியோலா”, “எசுப்பேனியோலா”, “ஹிஸ்பேனியோலா”, “เกาะฮิสแปนิโอลา”, “아이티 섬”, “이스파니올라”, “이스파니올라 섬”, “히스파니올라”, “イスパニオラ島”, “エスパニョーラ島”, “ヒスパニオーラ島”, “ヒスパニョーラ島”, “伊斯帕尼奧拉島”, “伊芳斯帕尼奧拉島”, “希斯潘諾拉島”, “海地島”, and “西班牙岛”
Hispaniola
- Location: Caribbean, North America
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Latitude of center
19° north
Longitude of center
-71° or 71° west
Population
21,100,000
Elevation
2,331 metres (7,648 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hispaniola” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hispaniola”
- Albanian: “Hispaniola”
- Arabic: “هسبنيولا”
- Aragonese: “Hispaniola”
- Armenian: “Հայիթի կղզի”
- Asturian: “La Española”
- Azerbaijani: “Haiti adası”
- Banjar: “Hispaniola”
- Bashkir: “Гаити (утрау)”
- Bashkir: “Гаити”
- Basque: “Hispaniola”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Гаіці”
- Belarusian: “Гаіці”
- Bengali: “হিস্পানিওলা”
- Bosnian: “Hispaniola”
- Breton: “Hispaniola”
- Bulgarian: “Еспаньола”
- Bulgarian: “Испаньола”
- Catalan: “Hispaniola”
- Cebuano: “Hispaniola”
- Chechen: “Гаити (гӀайре)”
- Chechen: “Гаити”
- Chinese: “伊斯帕尼奥拉岛”
- Croatian: “Hispaniola”
- Czech: “Hispaniola”
- Danish: “Hispaniola”
- Dutch: “Hispaniola”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيسبانيولا”
- Esperanto: “Hispaniolo”
- Estonian: “Haiti saar”
- Faroese: “Hispaniola”
- Fiji Hindi: “Hispaniola”
- Finnish: “Hispaniola”
- French: “Haïti”
- French: “Hispaniola”
- French: “Ile d’Haïti”
- French: “Saint-Domingue”
- Galician: “A Española”
- Georgian: “ჰაიტი”
- German: “Hispaniola”
- Gilaki: “ايسپانيؤلا”
- Greek: “Ισπανιόλα”
- Guarani: “Epañóla”
- Guarani: “La Española”
- Haitian: “Ispayola”
- Hausa: “Hispaniola”
- Hebrew: “היספניולה”
- Hindi: “हिस्पानिओला”
- Hungarian: “Hispaniola”
- Icelandic: “Hispaníóla”
- Ido: “Hispaniola”
- Indonesian: “Hispaniola”
- Interlingua: “Hispaniola”
- Interlingue: “Hispaniola”
- Irish: “An Easpáinneoil”
- Italian: “Hispaniola”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Ispanyuola”
- Japanese: “イスパニョーラ島”
- Kazakh: “Гаити (арал)”
- Kazakh: “Гаити”
- Kirghiz: “Гаити”
- Korean: “히스파니올라섬”
- Latin: “Hispaniola”
- Latvian: “Haiti”
- Lithuanian: “Haitis”
- Lombard: “Hispaniola”
- Luxembourgish: “Hispaniola”
- Macedonian: “Хаити”
- Macedonian: “Хиспаниола”
- Malagasy: “Hispaniola (nosy)”
- Malagasy: “Hispaniola”
- Malay: “Hispaniola”
- Malayalam: “ഹിസ്പാനിയോള”
- Marathi: “हिस्पॅनियोला”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hispaniola”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sió-se-pan-gâ”
- Mingrelian: “ჰაიტი (კოკი)”
- Mingrelian: “ჰაიტი”
- Northern Frisian: “Hispaniola”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hispaniola”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hispaniola”
- Norwegian: “Hispaniola”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Haití”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lytel Spēonland”
- Ossetian: “Гаити”
- Papiamento: “Hispañola”
- Persian: “هیسپانیولا”
- Picard: “Hispaniola”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hispanyola”
- Polish: “Haiti”
- Portuguese: “Hispaniola”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de São Domingos”
- Quechua: “Ayti wat’a”
- Romanian: “Hispaniola”
- Russian: “Гаити (Эспаньола)”
- Russian: “Гаити”
- Rusyn: “Гиспаньола”
- Sardinian: “Hispaniola”
- Saterfriesisch: “Hispaniola”
- Scots: “Hispaniola”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hispaniola”
- Serbian: “Хаити”
- Serbian: “Хиспањола”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hispaniola”
- Slovak: “Haiti”
- Slovenian: “Hispaniola”
- Spanish: “Española”
- Spanish: “Isla de Santo Domingo”
- Spanish: “La Española”
- Spanish: “Santo Domingo”
- Swahili: “Hispaniola”
- Swedish: “Hispaniola”
- Swiss German: “Hispaniola”
- Tajik: “Ҳиспониюло”
- Tamil: “லா எசுப்பானியோலா”
- Thai: “เกาะฮิสปันโยลา”
- Turkish: “Hispanyola”
- Tyap: “Hisi̱panyola”
- Ukrainian: “Гаїті”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hispaniola”
- Urdu: “ہسپانیولا”
- Uzbek: “Gaiti”
- Venetian: “La Spagnoła”
- Vietnamese: “Hispaniola”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hispaniola”
- Welsh: “Hispaniola”
- Western Frisian: “Hispanjoala”
- Western Frisian: “Hispanjola”
- Western Mari: “Гаити ошмаоты”
- Western Panjabi: “ہسپانولا”
- Western Panjabi: “ہسپانیولا”
- Wu Chinese: “伊斯帕尼奥拉岛”
- Yiddish: “היספאניאלא”
- Yoruba: “Hispaniola”
- Yue Chinese: “西班牙島”
- Zeeuws: “Hispaniola”
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