Kiritimati
Kiritimati, also known as Christmas Island has the largest land area of any coral atoll in the world and by itself represents the majority of the land area of Kiribati.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Calvin Smith, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 7,370 residents
- Description: coral atoll in the northern Line Islands, Kiribati
- Also known as: “Christmas Island” and “Kiritimati Island Area”
Kiritimati
- Categories: island and atoll
- Location: Line Islands, Kiribati, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kiritimati” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kiritimati”
- Arabic: “كيريتيماتي”
- Basque: “Kiritimati”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кірыцімаці”
- Belarusian: “Кірыцімаці”
- Bhojpuri: “किरितिमाती”
- Bhojpuri: “क्रिसमस आइलैंड”
- Bhojpuri: “क्रिसमस दीप”
- Breton: “Kiritimati”
- Bulgarian: “Рождество”
- Catalan: “Christmas”
- Catalan: “illa Christmas”
- Catalan: “Kiritimati”
- Cebuano: “Kiritimati Island”
- Chechen: “Рождествон гӀайре (Кирибати)”
- Chechen: “Рождествон гӀайре”
- Chinese: “圣诞岛”
- Chinese: “圣诞环礁”
- Chinese: “基里地馬地”
- Chinese: “基里地馬地島”
- Chinese: “太平洋聖誕島”
- Chinese: “聖誕島”
- Chuvash: “Раштав утравĕ”
- Croatian: “Kiritimati”
- Czech: “Kiritimati”
- Czech: “Vánoční ostrov”
- Danish: “Christmas Island”
- Danish: “Kiritimati”
- Dutch: “Christmaseiland”
- Dutch: “Kerstmiseiland”
- Dutch: “Kiritimati”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيريتيماس”
- Esperanto: “Kiritimati”
- Esperanto: “Kristnaskinsulo”
- Estonian: “Kiritimati”
- Finnish: “Kiritimati”
- French: “Christmas”
- French: “Ile Christmas”
- French: “île Christmas”
- French: “Île Christmas”
- French: “Kiritimati”
- Galician: “Illa Christmas”
- Galician: “Illa Kiritimati”
- Galician: “Kiritimati”
- Georgian: “კირიტიმატი”
- Georgian: “შობის კუნძული”
- German: “Christmas Island”
- German: “Kiritimati”
- German: “Weihnachtsinsel”
- Greek: “Κιριτιμάτι”
- Hebrew: “קיריטימטי”
- Icelandic: “Kiritimati”
- Indonesian: “Kiritimati”
- Italian: “Christmas”
- Italian: “isola Christmas”
- Italian: “Isola Christmas”
- Italian: “Kiritimati”
- Japanese: “キリスィマスィ島”
- Korean: “키리티마티”
- Korean: “키리티마티섬”
- Latin: “Insula Christi Natalis”
- Latvian: “Kirisimasi”
- Limburgan: “Kerseilandj”
- Lithuanian: “Kirimatis”
- Lithuanian: “Kiritimati”
- Lithuanian: “Kiritimatis”
- Macedonian: “Киритимати”
- Malay: “Kiritimati”
- Marathi: “किरितिमाती”
- Mingrelian: “ქირსეშ კოკი (კირიბატი)”
- Mingrelian: “ქირსეშ კოკი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Juleøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiritimati”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kiritimati”
- Norwegian: “Kiritimati”
- Persian: “کیریتیماتی”
- Polish: “Kiritimati”
- Portuguese: “Kiritimati”
- Portuguese: “Quiritimati”
- Romanian: “Kiritimati”
- Russian: “Киритимати”
- Russian: “Остров Рождества”
- Russian: “Рождества остров”
- Scots: “Kiritimati”
- Slovak: “Kiritimati”
- Spanish: “Isla Christmas”
- Spanish: “Kiritimati”
- Swedish: “Kiritimati”
- Swiss German: “Kiritimati”
- Thai: “Kiritimati”
- Thai: “เกาะคิริติมาตี”
- Thai: “เกาะคิริสมาส”
- Thai: “คิริสมาส”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kiritimati”
- Turkish: “Kiritimati”
- Ukrainian: “Кіритіматі”
- Ukrainian: “Кірітіматі”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Різдва”
- Urdu: “کیریتیماتی”
- Uzbek: “Rojdestvo oroli (Kiribati)”
- Uzbek: “Rojdestvo oroli”
- Vietnamese: “Kiritimati”
- Western Mari: “Киритимати”
- Wu Chinese: “圣诞岛 (基里巴斯)”
- Wu Chinese: “圣诞岛（基里巴斯）”
- Yue Chinese: “基里地馬地島”
- “Kiritimati”
- “किरितिमाती”
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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 “Kiritimati”. Photo: Calvin Smith, CC BY 2.0.