Islands

Yet all of us in a sense are islanders, since on a planet 70% covered by interconnected oceans, every place is an island, in being surrounded by water.
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Islands

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Latitude of center
-7.0255° or 7° 1′ 32″ south
Longitude of center
-37.9442° or 37° 56′ 39″ west
UN/LOCODE
FR ISA
Open­Street­Map ID
way 234909064
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­sand
Geo­Names ID
3012697
Wiki­data ID
Q23442

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Islands” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Адгьылбжьаха”
  • Achinese: “Pulo”
  • Afrikaans: “Eiland”
  • Albanian: “Ishuj”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt”
  • Albanian: “Ishull”
  • Albanian: “Ishulli”
  • Amharic: “ደሴት”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “νῆσος”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “ail”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “ailaan”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “ailan”
  • Arabic: “الجزُر”
  • Arabic: “الجزيرة”
  • Arabic: “جزر”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة”
  • Arabic: “جزيـرة”
  • Arabic: “جزيره”
  • Aragonese: “Isla”
  • Armenian: “Կղզի”
  • Asturian: “isla”
  • Asturian: “Islla”
  • Asturian: “islles”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ada”
  • Balinese: “Nusa”
  • Banjar: “pulau”
  • Bashkir: “Утрау”
  • Basque: “Irla”
  • Basque: “Uharte”
  • Batak Toba: “Pulo”
  • Bavarian: “Insl”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў”
  • Belarusian: “Выспа”
  • Bengali: “দ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bhojpuri: “जज़ीरा”
  • Bhojpuri: “टापू”
  • Bhojpuri: “दियारा”
  • Bhojpuri: “दीप”
  • Bhojpuri: “द्वीप”
  • Bosnian: “Ostrvo”
  • Bosnian: “otok”
  • Breton: “Enezenn”
  • Breton: “inizi”
  • Bulgarian: “Остров”
  • Bulgarian: “острови”
  • Burmese: “ကျွန်း(ကုန်းမြေ)”
  • Burmese: “ကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Illa”
  • Catalan: “Illes”
  • Cebuano: “Isla”
  • Cebuano: “Pulo”
  • Central Bikol: “Isla”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگە”
  • Central Kurdish: “گراڤ”
  • Central Okinawan: “島”
  • Chechen: “ГӀайре”
  • Chinese: “岛”
  • Chinese: “岛屿”
  • Chinese: “島”
  • Chinese: “島嶼”
  • Chinese: “嶼”
  • Chuvash: “Утрав”
  • Cornish: “Enys”
  • Croatian: “otoci”
  • Croatian: “otočić”
  • Croatian: “Otok”
  • Czech: “Ostrov”
  • Czech: “ostrovy”
  • Danish: “Ø”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ade”
  • Dutch: “Eiland”
  • Dutch: “eilanden”
  • Eastern Mari: “остров”
  • Eastern Mari: “Отро”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره”
  • Emilian: “Îṡla”
  • Erzya: “усия”
  • Erzya: “явкужо”
  • Esperanto: “insuleto”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo”
  • Esperanto: “insuloj”
  • Estonian: “Saar”
  • Estonian: “saared”
  • Faroese: “Oyggj”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Island”
  • Fijian: “Yanuyanu”
  • Finnish: “Saari”
  • French: “caye”
  • French: “ile paradisiaque”
  • French: “ile tropicale”
  • French: “Île”
  • French: “îles”
  • French: “îlet”
  • French: “îlot”
  • French: “isle”
  • Galician: “Illa”
  • Gan Chinese: “島”
  • Georgian: “კუნძული”
  • German: “Eiland”
  • German: “Insel”
  • Gorontalo: “Pulo”
  • Greek: “Νησί”
  • Greek: “νησιά”
  • Greek: “νησίδα”
  • Greek: “νήσος”
  • Guarani: “Ypa’ũ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil”
  • Haitian: “Il”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin”
  • Hawaiian: “Mokupuni”
  • Hebrew: “אי”
  • Hebrew: “איים”
  • Hindi: “टापू”
  • Hindi: “द्वीपों”
  • Hungarian: “Sziget”
  • Iban: “Pulau”
  • Icelandic: “Ey”
  • Icelandic: “Eyja”
  • Ido: “Insulo”
  • Iloko: “Isla”
  • Iloko: “puro”
  • Inari Sami: “suálui”
  • Indonesian: “gili”
  • Indonesian: “nusa”
  • Indonesian: “p.”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau”
  • Ingush: “ГIайре”
  • Ingush: “ГӀайре”
  • Interlingua: “Insula”
  • Interlingue: “Insul”
  • Inupiaq: “Qikiqtaq”
  • Irish: “inis”
  • Irish: “Oileán”
  • Italian: “Isola”
  • Italian: “isole”
  • Japanese: “アイランド”
  • Japanese: “しま”
  • Japanese: “とうしょ”
  • Japanese: “島”
  • Japanese: “島しょ”
  • Japanese: “島嶼”
  • Japanese: “自然島”
  • Javanese: “nusa”
  • Javanese: “Pulo”
  • Jèrriais: “Île”
  • Jju: “Ka̱byen a̱katyyi ba̱shekkwot”
  • Kabyle: “Tegzirt”
  • Kabyle: “tigzirt”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Pulau”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Pulou”
  • Kannada: “ಗ೦ಟೆ”
  • Kannada: “ದ್ವೀಪ”
  • Kannada: “ನಡುಗಡ್ಡೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ataw”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Айрыкам”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Айрымкан”
  • Kashmiri: “جزیرٕ”
  • Kashmiri: “لانٛکھ”
  • Kazakh: “Арал”
  • Khmer: “កោះ”
  • Kildin Sami: “суэл”
  • Kirghiz: “АРАЛ –”
  • Komering: “Pulau”
  • Komi: “Ді”
  • Korean: “섬”
  • Korean: “유인도”
  • Kurdish: “durge”
  • Kurdish: “Girav”
  • Kurdish: “gizirt”
  • Ladin: “Isola”
  • Ladino: “Adá”
  • Ladino: “Isla”
  • Ladino: “Isola”
  • Ladino: “Izla”
  • Lao: “ເກາະ”
  • Lao: “កោះ”
  • Latin: “Insula”
  • Latvian: “Sala”
  • Limburgan: “Eilandj”
  • Lingala: “Esanga”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isola”
  • Lithuanian: “Sala”
  • Lojban: “daplu”
  • Lombard: “Ìsula”
  • Lombard: “Ìzola”
  • Low German: “Eilaand”
  • Low German: “Eiland”
  • Low German: “Insel”
  • Lule Sami: “suoloj”
  • Luxembourgish: “Insel”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nisii”
  • Macedonian: “Остров”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy”
  • Malay: “Pulau”
  • Malay: “ڤولاو”
  • Malayalam: “Island”
  • Malayalam: “ദ്വീപ്”
  • Maltese: “gżira”
  • Manchu: “ᡨᡠᠨ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯊꯠ”
  • Manx: “Ellan”
  • Maori: “motutere”
  • Maori: “moutere”
  • Marathi: “द्वीप”
  • Marathi: “बेट”
  • Mazanderani: “جزیره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tó-sū”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Pulau”
  • Mingrelian: “კოკი”
  • Mirandese: “Ilha”
  • Moksha: “Цёнга”
  • Mon: “တကအ်”
  • Mongolian: “Арал”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جزيرة”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߌ߲߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߜߎ߲”
  • Neapolitan: “Isula”
  • Nepali: “द्वीप”
  • Newari: “न्हसिभु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Eilun”
  • Northern Sami: “suolu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “ø”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “øy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “vulkansk øy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “øyar”
  • Norwegian: “Øy”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “illas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “isla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “islas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “isola”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “isolas”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܓܙܪܬܐ”
  • Ossetian: “сакъадæхтæ”
  • Ossetian: “Сакъадах”
  • Pampanga: “isla”
  • Pampanga: “pulu”
  • Panjabi: “ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Isla”
  • Pedi: “Sehlakehlake”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Eiland”
  • Persian: “آبخوست”
  • Persian: “ابخست”
  • Persian: “جزیره”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “ailen”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “ailens”
  • Pite Sami: “suolo”
  • Polish: “Wyspa”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha”
  • Portuguese: “ilhas”
  • Portuguese: “insular”
  • Pushto: “ټاپو”
  • Quechua: “Isla”
  • Quechua: “Wat’a”
  • Romanian: “Insulă”
  • Russia Buriat: “Арал”
  • Russian: “Остров”
  • Rusyn: “Остров”
  • Sakizaya: “subal”
  • Samogitian: “Sala”
  • Sango: “Zûa”
  • Saraiki: “جزیرہ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Ailound”
  • Scots: “Island”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean”
  • Serbian: “острва”
  • Serbian: “Острво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “ostrvo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otok”
  • Shan: “ၵုၼ်”
  • Shan: “ၵုၼ်ဢွၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Chitsuwa”
  • Shona: “Chiwi”
  • Shona: “Zvitsuwa”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsula”
  • Silesian: “Wyspa”
  • Sindhi: “ٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “දූපත්”
  • Skolt Sami: “suâl”
  • Slovak: “Ostrov”
  • Slovenian: “ostrov”
  • Slovenian: “otoček”
  • Slovenian: “Otok”
  • Somali: “aw-badeed”
  • Somali: “Awdal”
  • Somali: “Jasiirad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آدا”
  • Southern Sami: “sååle”
  • Spanish: “insular”
  • Spanish: “Isla”
  • Spanish: “islas”
  • Spanish: “isleño”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⴳⵣⵉⵔⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “Pulo”
  • Swahili: “Kisiwa”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa”
  • Swedish: “Ö (landområde)”
  • Swedish: “ö”
  • Swedish: “öar”
  • Swiss German: “Insel”
  • Swiss German: “Insle”
  • Tagalog: “isla”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазира”
  • Tamil: “தீவு”
  • Tatar: “Утрау”
  • Telugu: “దీవి”
  • Telugu: “దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “ద్వీపం”
  • Telugu: “ద్వీపము”
  • Telugu: “ద్వీపములు”
  • Telugu: “ద్వీపాలు”
  • Telugu: “ధ్వీపం”
  • Thai: “กลุ่มเกาะ”
  • Thai: “เกาะ”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Ailan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “motu”
  • Tumbuka: “Nkhoska”
  • Turkish: “Ada”
  • Turkmen: “Ada”
  • Tyap: “a̱byin a̱ka̱wa̱tyia̱ a̱sa̱khwot”
  • Tyap: “sa̱khat”
  • Udmurt: “Шормуӵ”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів”
  • Ukrainian: “острови”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kupa”
  • Upper Sorbian: “kupy”
  • Urdu: “جزائر”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Orol”
  • Venetian: “Isola”
  • Venetian: “Ìxoła”
  • Venetian: “Ixołe”
  • Venetian: “Ixula”
  • Venetian: “Ìzoła”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo”
  • Vietnamese: “hải đảo”
  • Vietnamese: “hòn đảo”
  • Vlaams: “Eiland”
  • Vlax Romani: “Dvip”
  • Võro: “Saar”
  • Walloon: “Île”
  • Walloon: “Iye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Purô”
  • Welsh: “Ynys”
  • Western Armenian: “Կղզի”
  • Western Frisian: “Eilân”
  • Western Mari: “Ошмаоты”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ”
  • Wolof: “Dun yi”
  • Wolof: “Dun”
  • Wolof: “Iil”
  • Wu Chinese: “岛”
  • Wu Chinese: “岛屿”
  • Wu Chinese: “島”
  • Xhosa: “Isiqithi”
  • Yakut: “Арыы”
  • Yiddish: “אינדזל”
  • Yiddish: “אינזל”
  • Yiddish: “אינזעל”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùṣù”
  • Yoruba: “Island”
  • Yue Chinese: “島”
  • Yue Chinese: “島嶼”
  • Yue Chinese: “嶼”
  • Yue Chinese: “洲”
  • Zeeuws: “Eiland”
  • “ma li lon insa telo”
  • “ma li lon telo”
  • “ma lili”
  • “ma lon telo”
  • “Tlālhuac”
  • “Tlālhuāctli”
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