Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is an island and county five miles off the southern coast of England. The island has long been an excellent place for an upmarket but traditional seaside holiday, with beaches and towns that were very popular in Victorian times.
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Bembridge
Bembridge is a village and civil parish located on the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight.
Sandown and Shanklin
Sandown and Shanklin are seaside towns on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight.
Isle of Wight
- Region with about 140,000 residents
- Description: island, county and unitary authority area of England, United Kingdom
- Also known as“Ceremonial County Isle of Wight”“I. of Wight”“I. Wight”“Iktis”“Island of Wight”“Ouiktis”“Wight”“Wight I.”“Wight Island”“Wiht”“Wit”
- Neighbors: Hampshire
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Latitude of center
50.676° or 50° 40′ 34″ north
Longitude of center
-1.2962° or 1° 17′ 46″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Isle of Wight” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Eiland Wight”
- Arabic: “وايت”
- Armenian: “Ուայթ կղզի”
- Asturian: “Islla de Wight”
- Azerbaijani: “Vayt adası”
- Balinese: “Nusa Wight”
- Basque: “Wight”
- Bavarian: “Insel Wight”
- Bavarian: “Insl Wight”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Уайт”
- Belarusian: “Ўайт”
- Bengali: “আইল অফ ওয়াইট”
- Breton: “Enez Wight”
- Bulgarian: “Уайт”
- Burmese: “ဝိုက်ကျွန်း”
- Burmese: “အယ်လော့ဝိုက်”
- Catalan: “Illa de Wight”
- Cebuano: “Isle of Wight”
- Chinese: “威特島”
- Chinese: “怀特岛郡”
- Cornish: “Wyth”
- Cornish: “Ynys Wyth”
- Corsican: “Isula di Wight”
- Croatian: “Otok Wight”
- Croatian: “Wight”
- Czech: “Wight”
- Danish: “Isle of Wight”
- Dutch: “Eiland Wight”
- Dutch: “Wight”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Vajto”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Wight”
- Esperanto: “Isle of Wight”
- Estonian: “Wight”
- Faroese: “Isle of Wight”
- Finnish: “Isle of Wight”
- French: “Île de Wight”
- French: “Wight”
- Galician: “Illa de Wight”
- Galician: “Wight”
- Georgian: “უაიტი”
- German: “Insel Wight”
- German: “Isle of Wight”
- German: “Wight”
- Greek: “Νήσος Ουάιτ”
- Gujarati: “આઇલ ઓફ વાઈટ”
- Hebrew: “האי וייט”
- Hindi: “आइल ऑफ़ वाइट”
- Hungarian: “Wight-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Wighteyja”
- Ido: “Insulo di Wight”
- Ido: “Insulo Wight”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Wight”
- Interlingua: “Insula de Wight”
- Irish: “Inis Iocht”
- Italian: “Isola di Wight”
- Italian: “Wight”
- Japanese: “ワイト島”
- Jèrriais: “Wique”
- Kannada: “ಐಲ್ ಆಫ್ ವಿಟ್”
- Khmer: “កោះវ៉ាយធ៍”
- Khmer: “វ៉ែត”
- Korean: “아일오브와이트주”
- Ladin: “Isle of Wight”
- Latin: “Ictis”
- Latin: “Vecta”
- Latin: “Vectis”
- Latin: “Victis”
- Latvian: “Vaita”
- Latvian: “Vaitas sala”
- Lithuanian: “Vaito sala”
- Lower Sorbian: “Isle of Wight”
- Luxembourgish: “Insel Wight”
- Macedonian: “Вајт”
- Macedonian: “Остров Вајт”
- Malay: “Pulau Wight”
- Manx: “Ellan Eeaght”
- Marathi: “आईल ऑफ वाइट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wight Tó”
- Mirandese: “Ilha de Wight”
- Northern Frisian: “Eilun Wight”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wight”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isle of Wight”
- Norwegian: “Isle of Wight”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de Wight”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isla de Wight”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wiht”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ƿiht”
- Ossetian: “Сакъадах Уайт”
- Panjabi: “ਆੲੀਲ ਆਫ਼ ਵਾੲੀਟ”
- Panjabi: “ਆਇਲ ਆਫ ਵਾਈਟ”
- Persian: “جزیره وایت”
- Polish: “Wight”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Wight”
- Romanian: “Insula Wight”
- Russian: “Вайт”
- Russian: “Остров Уайт”
- Russian: “Уайт (остров)”
- Russian: “Уайт”
- Sardinian: “Ìsula de Wight”
- Scots: “Island o Wight”
- Scots: “Isle o Wight”
- Scots: “Wight”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Wight”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Innis Iochd”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Innis Iuchd”
- Serbian: “Острво Вајт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Isle of Wight”
- Sicilian: “Ìsula di Wight”
- Sindhi: “آئل آف وائيٽ”
- Slovak: “Wight”
- Slovenian: “Otok Wight”
- Spanish: “Isla de Wight”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Wight”
- Swedish: “Isle of Wight”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Wight”
- Tajik: “Ҷазираи Уайт”
- Tamil: “வைட்டுத் தீவு”
- Telugu: “ఇస్లే అఫ్ వెయిట్”
- Thai: “ไอล์ออฟไวต์”
- Turkish: “Wight Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Вайт (острів)”
- Ukrainian: “Вайт”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Вайт”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Уайт”
- Ukrainian: “Уайт (острів)”
- Ukrainian: “Уайт”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wight”
- Urdu: “آئل آف ویٹ”
- Venetian: “ìzoła de Wight”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Wight”
- Vlaams: “Eiland Wight”
- Vlaams: “Wight”
- Volapük: “Isle of Wight”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Wight”
- Welsh: “Gueid”
- Welsh: “Guith”
- Welsh: “Ynys Wyth”
- Western Frisian: “Eilân Wight”
- Western Panjabi: “آئل آف وائٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “怀特岛郡”
- Yiddish: “אינזל פון ווייט”
- Yue Chinese: “威特島”
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