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Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen is an island between and in the Arctic Ocean, administered by Norway. The island has 18 inhabitants, employed by the Norwegian Armed Forces or the Norwegian Institute of Meteorology.
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  • Type: island with 18 residents
  • Description: island in the Arctic Ocean, part of Norway
  • Also known as: “Jan Mayen Island” and “Jan Mayen Land”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sørlaguna and North Lagoon.

is a lagoon on the island of Jan Mayen. It is the largest lake of Jan Mayen, and is located in the central part of the island, near the bay of .

Photo: Dreizung, CC BY 3.0.
Nordlaguna is a lagoon on the island of Jan Mayen. It is the second largest lake of Jan Mayen, after , and is located in the central part of the island, near the bay of Stasjonsbukta.

Jan Mayen

Latitude
70.97° or 70° 58′ 12″ north
Longitude
-8.46° or 8° 27′ 36″ west
Population
18
Open location code
CC2HXG9Q+XX
Wiki­data ID
Q14056
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Satellite Map

Discover Jan Mayen from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Jan Mayen” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Jan Mayen”
  • Afrikaans: “Jan Mayen”
  • Albanian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Arabic: “يان ماين”
  • Armenian: “Յան Մայեն”
  • Arpitan: “Ila Jan Mayen”
  • Arpitan: “Jan Mayen”
  • Asturian: “Islla Jan Mayen”
  • Asturian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yan Mayen”
  • Basque: “Jan Mayen”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Ян-Маен”
  • Belarusian: “Ян Маен”
  • Belarusian: “Ян-Маен”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ান মায়েন”
  • Bosnian: “Jan Majen”
  • Bosnian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Breton: “Jan Mayen”
  • Bulgarian: “Ян Майен”
  • Catalan: “Jan Mayen”
  • Cebuano: “Jan Mayen”
  • Chinese: “Jan Mayen”
  • Chinese: “扬马延”
  • Chinese: “揚馬延”
  • Chinese: “揚馬延島”
  • Cornish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Croatian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Czech: “Jan Mayen”
  • Danish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Jan Mayen”
  • Dutch: “Jan Mayen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يان ماين”
  • Erzya: “Ян-Майен Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Janmajeno”
  • Estonian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Faroese: “Jan Mayen”
  • Finnish: “Jan Mayen”
  • French: “île Jan Mayen”
  • French: “Île Jan Mayen”
  • French: “Jan Mayen”
  • Galician: “Jan Mayen”
  • Georgian: “იან-მაიენი”
  • German: “Jan Mayen”
  • German: “NO-22”
  • Greek: “Γιαν Μάγεν”
  • Hebrew: “יאן מאיין”
  • Hindi: “यान मायेन”
  • Hungarian: “Jan Mayen-sziget”
  • Icelandic: “Jan Mayen”
  • Indonesian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Interlingua: “Insula de Jan Mayen”
  • Interlingue: “Jan Mayen”
  • Irish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Italian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Japanese: “ヤンマイエン島”
  • Javanese: “Jan Mayen”
  • Kalmyk: “Ян Майенин Арл”
  • Kazakh: “Ян-Майен”
  • Kirghiz: “Ян-Майен”
  • Korean: “얀마옌섬”
  • Kurdish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Latin: “Insula Ioannis Maii”
  • Latvian: “Jana Majena sala”
  • Ligurian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Limburgan: “Jan Mayen”
  • Literary Chinese: “揚馬延島”
  • Lithuanian: “Jan Majenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hudson’s Tutches”
  • Luxembourgish: “Île de Richelieu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Isabella”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Trinity Island”
  • Macedonian: “Јан Мајен”
  • Malay: “Jan Mayen”
  • Marathi: “यान मायेन”
  • Mazanderani: “یان ماین”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jan Mayen”
  • Mongolian: “Ян-Майен”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Northern Sami: “Jan Mayen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jan Mayen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jan Mayen”
  • Norwegian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jan Mayen”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ian Magen”
  • Ossetian: “Ян-Майен”
  • Persian: “یان ماین”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Yaan Meien”
  • Polish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Portuguese: “Jan Mayen”
  • Romanian: “Insula Jan Mayen”
  • Russian: “Ян-Майен”
  • Serbian: “Јан Мајен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Slovak: “Jan Mayen”
  • Slovenian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Spanish: “Islla Jan Mayen”
  • Spanish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Sundanese: “Jan Mayen”
  • Swahili: “Jan Mayen”
  • Swedish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Tamil: “ஜான் மாயென்”
  • Tatar: “Ян-Майен”
  • Thai: “ยานไมเอน”
  • Turkish: “Jan Mayen”
  • Ukrainian: “Ян-Маєн”
  • Urdu: “جان ماین”
  • Urdu: “یان ماین”
  • Uzbek: “Yan Mayen”
  • Venetian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Vietnamese: “Jan Mayen”
  • Vlaams: “Jan Mayen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jan Mayen”
  • Welsh: “Jan Mayen”
  • Western Frisian: “Jan Mayen”
  • Western Panjabi: “یان ماین”
  • Wu Chinese: “扬 曼因岛”
  • Wu Chinese: “扬马延岛”
  • Yoruba: “Jan Mayen”
  • Yue Chinese: “揚馬延島”
  • Zeeuws: “Jan Mayen”

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