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Hispaniola

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  • Type: Island with 21,100,000 residents
  • Description: island in the Caribbean
  • Also known as: “Ayiti”, “Cap Carcasse”, “Hayti”, “Hispaniola Island”, “Hispanola”, “Isla Espanola”, “Isla Española”, “Island of Hispaniola”, “Island of Santo Domingo”, “Kiskeya”, “La Española”, “La Hispaniola”, “La Isla Espanola”, “La Isla Española”, “Quisqueya”, and “Sant Domingue”

Hispaniola

Latitude of center
19° north
Longitude of center
-71° or 71° west
Population
21,100,000
Elevation
2,331 metres (7,648 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3504558
Wiki­data ID
Q25277
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hispaniola” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hispaniola”
  • Albanian: “Hispaniola”
  • Arabic: “هسبانيولا”
  • Arabic: “هسبنيولا”
  • Arabic: “هيسبانيولا”
  • Aragonese: “Hispaniola”
  • Armenian: “Էսպանիոլ”
  • Armenian: “Հայիթի կղզի”
  • Armenian: “Հիսպանիոլ”
  • Asturian: “La Española”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haiti adası”
  • Banjar: “Hispaniola”
  • Bashkir: “Гаити (утрау)”
  • Bashkir: “Гаити”
  • Basque: “Hispaniola”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Гаіці”
  • Belarusian: “Гаіці”
  • Belarusian: “Гішпаньёля”
  • Belarusian: “Кіскея”
  • Belarusian: “Санта-Дамінга”
  • Belarusian: “Эспаньёла”
  • Belarusian: “Эспаньёля”
  • Bosnian: “Hispaniola”
  • Breton: “Hispaniola”
  • Bulgarian: “Еспаньола”
  • Bulgarian: “Испаньола”
  • Bulgarian: “Хаити”
  • Catalan: “Hispaniola”
  • Catalan: “Illa espanyola”
  • Catalan: “L’Espanyola”
  • Catalan: “La Espanyola”
  • Catalan: “La Hispaniola”
  • Cebuano: “Hispaniola”
  • Chechen: “Гаити (гӀайре)”
  • Chechen: “Гаити”
  • Chinese: “Hispaniola”
  • Chinese: “伊斯帕尼奥拉岛”
  • Chinese: “伊斯帕尼奧拉島”
  • Chinese: “伊芳斯帕尼奧拉島”
  • Chinese: “希斯潘諾拉島”
  • Chinese: “海地島”
  • Chinese: “西班牙岛”
  • Chinese: “西班牙島”
  • Croatian: “Hispaniola”
  • Czech: “Haiti”
  • Czech: “Hispaniola”
  • Czech: “Hispaňola”
  • Danish: “Hispaniola”
  • Danish: “La Hispaniola”
  • Dutch: “Hispaniola”
  • Dutch: “Hispanola”
  • Dutch: “Hispañola”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيسبانيولا”
  • Esperanto: “Hispaniola”
  • Esperanto: “Hispaniolo”
  • Esperanto: “Hispanjolo”
  • Estonian: “Haiti saar”
  • Estonian: “Haiti”
  • Estonian: “Hispaniola”
  • Faroese: “Hispaniola”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hispaniola”
  • Finnish: “Haiti”
  • Finnish: “Hispaniola”
  • French: “Haïti”
  • French: “Hispaniola”
  • French: “Hispañola”
  • French: “Hispanolia”
  • French: “Ile d’Haïti”
  • French: “Île d’Haïti”
  • French: “Île d’Hispaniola”
  • French: “Île de Saint-Domingue”
  • French: “Saint-Domingue”
  • Galician: “A Española”
  • Georgian: “ისპანიოლა”
  • Georgian: “ჰაიტი”
  • German: “Hispaniola”
  • German: “Kleinspanien”
  • German: “Spanische Insel”
  • Gilaki: “ايسپانيؤلا”
  • Greek: “Ισπανιόλα”
  • Guarani: “Epañóla”
  • Guarani: “La Española”
  • Haitian: “Ispanyola”
  • Haitian: “Ispayola”
  • Hausa: “Hispaniola”
  • Hebrew: “אספניולה”
  • Hebrew: “היספניולה”
  • Hindi: “हिस्पानिओला”
  • Hungarian: “Hispaniola”
  • Icelandic: “Hispaníóla”
  • Ido: “Hispaniola”
  • Indonesian: “Hispaniola”
  • Interlingua: “Hispaniola”
  • Interlingue: “Hispaniola”
  • Irish: “An Easpáinneoil”
  • Italian: “Hispaniola”
  • Italian: “Isola di Santo Domingo”
  • Italian: “Quisquella”
  • Italian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ispanyuola”
  • Japanese: “イスパニオラ島”
  • Japanese: “イスパニョーラ島”
  • Japanese: “エスパニョーラ島”
  • Japanese: “ヒスパニオーラ島”
  • Japanese: “ヒスパニョーラ島”
  • Kazakh: “Гаити (арал)”
  • Kazakh: “Гаити”
  • Kirghiz: “Гаити”
  • Korean: “아이티 섬”
  • Korean: “이스파니올라 섬”
  • Korean: “이스파니올라”
  • Korean: “히스파니올라”
  • Korean: “히스파니올라섬”
  • Latin: “Hispaniola”
  • Latin: “Quisqueya”
  • Latvian: “Espanjola”
  • Latvian: “Espanola”
  • Latvian: “Española”
  • Latvian: “Espaņola”
  • Latvian: “Haiti sala”
  • Latvian: “Haiti”
  • Latvian: “Hispaniola”
  • Latvian: “La Española”
  • Lithuanian: “Espanjola”
  • Lithuanian: “Haičio sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Haitis”
  • Lithuanian: “Hispaniola”
  • Lithuanian: “Ispanjola”
  • Lombard: “Hispaniola”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hispaniola”
  • Macedonian: “Еспањола”
  • Macedonian: “Хаити”
  • Macedonian: “Хиспаниола”
  • Malagasy: “Hispaniola (nosy)”
  • Malagasy: “Hispaniola”
  • Malay: “Hispaniola”
  • Malayalam: “ഹിസ്പാനിയോള”
  • Marathi: “हिस्पॅनियोला”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hispaniola-tó”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hispaniola”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sió-se-pan-gâ”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰაიტი (კოკი)”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰაიტი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hispaniola”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hispaniola”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hispañola”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hispaniola”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hispañola”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Haiti”
  • Norwegian: “Hispaniola”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aïtí”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Haití”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hispaniola”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lytel Spēonland”
  • Ossetian: “Гаити”
  • Ossetian: “Эспаньолæ”
  • Papiamento: “Hispañola”
  • Papiamento: “Republika Dominikana”
  • Persian: “جزیره هیسپانیولا”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ هیسپانیولا”
  • Persian: “هیسپانیولا”
  • Picard: “Hispaniola”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hispanyola”
  • Polish: “Haiti”
  • Polish: “Hispaniola”
  • Polish: “San Domingo”
  • Portuguese: “Espanhola”
  • Portuguese: “Hispaniola”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Hispaniola”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Santo Domingo”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de São Domingos”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Espanhola”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Española”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Hispaniola”
  • Portuguese: “Isla Española”
  • Portuguese: “La Hispaniola”
  • Quechua: “Ayti wat’a”
  • Quechua: “Hispaniola”
  • Quechua: “La Española”
  • Romanian: “Hispaniola”
  • Romanian: “Saint Domingue”
  • Romanian: “Saint-Domingue”
  • Russian: “Гаити (Эспаньола)”
  • Russian: “Гаити”
  • Russian: “Испаньола”
  • Russian: “Санто-Доминго”
  • Russian: “Эспаньола”
  • Russian: “Эспаньоло”
  • Rusyn: “Гиспаньола”
  • Sardinian: “Hispaniola”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hispaniola”
  • Scots: “Hispaniola”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hispaniola”
  • Serbian: “La Española”
  • Serbian: “Хаити”
  • Serbian: “Хиспаниола”
  • Serbian: “Хиспањола”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hispaniola”
  • Slovak: “Haiti”
  • Slovak: “Hispaniola”
  • Slovenian: “Hispaniola”
  • Spanish: “Bohio”
  • Spanish: “Española”
  • Spanish: “Hispaniola”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Santo Domingo”
  • Spanish: “Isla Espanola”
  • Spanish: “Isla Española”
  • Spanish: “Isla la Espanola”
  • Spanish: “Isla La Española”
  • Spanish: “La Espanola”
  • Spanish: “La Española”
  • Spanish: “La Hispaniola”
  • Spanish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Swahili: “Hispaniola”
  • Swedish: “Hispaniola”
  • Swedish: “Hispañola”
  • Swiss German: “Hispaniola”
  • Tajik: “Ҳиспониюло”
  • Tamil: “இஸ்பனியோலா”
  • Tamil: “எசுப்பேனியோலா”
  • Tamil: “லா எசுப்பானியோலா”
  • Tamil: “ஹிஸ்பேனியோலா”
  • Thai: “Hispaniola”
  • Thai: “เกาะฮิสปันโยลา”
  • Thai: “เกาะฮิสแปนิโอลา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hispaniola”
  • Turkish: “Hispaniola”
  • Turkish: “Hispanyola”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаїті”
  • Ukrainian: “Еспаньйола”
  • Ukrainian: “Іспаньйола”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Еспаньйола”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hispaniola”
  • Urdu: “ہسپانیولا”
  • Uzbek: “Gaiti”
  • Venetian: “La Spagnoła”
  • Vietnamese: “Hispaniola”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hispaniola”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Espanyola”
  • Welsh: “Hispaniola”
  • Western Frisian: “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: “伊斯帕尼奧拉島”
  • Yue Chinese: “西班牙島”
  • Zeeuws: “Hispaniola”

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