Kauai
Kauai is the most northwestern of Hawaii's major islands and is the 4th largest by size and population. Nicknamed the Garden Island, it is covered with lush greenery and tropical plants, watered regularly by abundant rainfall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: northernmost populated island of the Hawaiian archipelago
- Also known as: “Ataguay”, “Atoo”, “Atooai”, “Atouai Island”, “Atowa”, “Attahoy”, “Attoi”, “Atuai”, “Atui”, “Atuvai”, “Garden Island”, “Island of Kauai”, “Kauaʻi”, “Kauai Island”, “Kauwai”, “Kawai”, “Otuai”, “Tauai”, and “The Garden Isle”
- Historically known as: “Atooi”, “Atoui”, “Atowi”, “Attooi”, “Attowai”, “Kowi”, and “Towi”
Kauai
- Category: landform
- Location: Kauai, Hawaii, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Kauai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kauai”
- Arabic: “كاواي”
- Armenian: “Կաուայ”
- Azerbaijani: “Kauai adası”
- Basque: “Kauai”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Каўаі”
- Belarusian: “Каўаі”
- Bengali: “কাউয়াই”
- Bulgarian: “Кауаи”
- Catalan: “Kauai”
- Cebuano: “Kaua‘i”
- Chinese: “Kauaʻi”
- Chinese: “可愛島”
- Chinese: “考爱岛”
- Chinese: “考艾島”
- Croatian: “Kauai”
- Czech: “Kauai”
- Danish: “Kauai”
- Dutch: “Kaua’i”
- Dutch: “Kauai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاواى”
- Esperanto: “Kauai”
- Estonian: “Kauai”
- Finnish: “Kauai”
- French: “Île de Kauai”
- French: “Kaua’i”
- French: “Kauaʻi”
- French: “Kauai”
- French: “Liste de films tournés à Kauai”
- Galician: “Kaua’i”
- Galician: “Kauai”
- Georgian: “კაუა”
- German: “Kaua’i”
- German: “Kauaʻi”
- German: “Kauai”
- Greek: “Καουάι”
- Hawaiian: “Kaua‘i”
- Hawaiian: “Kauaʻi”
- Hebrew: “קאואיי”
- Hebrew: “קוואי”
- Hindi: “कवाई”
- Hindi: “काउआइ”
- Hungarian: “Kauai”
- Indonesian: “Kauai”
- Irish: “Kauaʻi”
- Irish: “Kauai”
- Italian: “Kaua’i”
- Italian: “Kauai”
- Japanese: “カウアイ島”
- Kabyle: “Kaway”
- Korean: “카우아이섬”
- Latin: “Kauai”
- Latvian: “Kauai”
- Lithuanian: “Kauai”
- Malay: “Kauai”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kauaʻi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kauai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kauai”
- Norwegian: “Kauai”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kauai”
- Ossetian: “Кауаи”
- Persian: “کائوآئی”
- Persian: “کائوائی”
- Persian: “کوآئی”
- Polish: “Kaua’i”
- Polish: “Kauaʻi”
- Polish: “Kauai”
- Portuguese: “Kauai”
- Romanian: “Kauai”
- Russian: “Кауаи”
- Serbian: “Кауаи”
- Serbian: “Кауај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kauai”
- Slovenian: “Kauai”
- South Azerbaijani: “کائوآئی”
- Spanish: “Kauai”
- Swedish: “Kaua’i”
- Swedish: “Kauai”
- Swiss German: “Kauaʻi”
- Thai: “คาไว”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kauaʻi”
- Turkish: “Kauai”
- Ukrainian: “Кауаї”
- Ukrainian: “Кауай”
- Urdu: “کائوائی”
- Vietnamese: “Kauai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kauai”
- Welsh: “Kauaʻi”
- Welsh: “Kauai”
- Western Frisian: “Kauaï”
- Wu Chinese: “考爱岛”
- Wu Chinese: “考艾岛”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kauai”. Photo: Andrew Baerst, CC BY 2.0.