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.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Locality with 7,370 residents
- Description: coral atoll in the northern Line Islands, Kiribati
- Also known as: “Božični otok”, “Christmas”, “Christmaseiland”, “Ile Christmas”, “illa Christmas”, “Isla Christmas”, “Juleøya”, “Kalėdų sala”, “Kerstmiseiland”, “Kiritimati Island Area”, “Kristnaskinsulo”, “Vánoční ostrov”, “Weihnachtsinsel”, “Кристмас”, “Острів Різдва”, “Рождества остров”, “კირიტიმატი”, “किरिटमाती”, “क्रिसमस आइलैंड”, “क्रिसमस दीप”, “เกาะคิริติมาตี”, “เกาะคิริสมาส”, “圣诞环礁”, and “太平洋聖誕島”
Kiritimati
- Categories: island, atoll, and reef island
- Location: Line Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.8742° or 1° 52′ 27″ north
Longitude
-157.4276° or 157° 25′ 39″ west
Population
7,370
Open location code
63H4VHFC+MX
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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”
- Asturian: “Kiritimati”
- Awadhi: “किरितिमाती”
- Basque: “Kiritimati”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кірыцімаці”
- Belarusian: “Кірыцімаці”
- Bhojpuri: “किरितिमाती”
- Breton: “Kiritimati”
- Bulgarian: “Рождество”
- Catalan: “Kiritimati”
- Cebuano: “Kiritimati Island”
- Chechen: “Рождествон гӀайре (Кирибати)”
- Chechen: “Рождествон гӀайре”
- Chinese: “圣诞岛”
- Chinese: “聖誕島”
- Chuvash: “Раштав утравĕ”
- Croatian: “Kiritimati”
- Czech: “Kiritimati”
- Danish: “Christmas Island”
- Dutch: “Kiritimati”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيريتيماس”
- Esperanto: “Kiritimati”
- Estonian: “Kiritimati”
- Finnish: “Kiritimati”
- French: “île Christmas”
- French: “Île Christmas”
- Galician: “Illa Christmas”
- Galician: “Illa Kiritimati”
- Georgian: “შობის კუნძული”
- German: “Kiritimati”
- Greek: “Κιριτιμάτι”
- Hebrew: “קיריטימטי”
- Hindi: “किरितिमाती”
- Icelandic: “Kiritimati”
- Indonesian: “Kiritimati”
- Italian: “isola Christmas”
- Italian: “Isola Christmas”
- Japanese: “キリスィマスィ島”
- Korean: “키리티마티”
- Korean: “키리티마티섬”
- Latin: “Insula Christi Natalis”
- Latvian: “Kirisimasi”
- Limburgan: “Kerseilandj”
- Lithuanian: “Kirimatis”
- Lithuanian: “Kiritimatis”
- Macedonian: “Киритимати”
- Malay: “Kiritimati”
- Marathi: “किरितिमाती”
- Mingrelian: “ქირსეშ კოკი (კირიბატი)”
- Mingrelian: “ქირსეშ კოკი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiritimati”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kiritimati”
- Norwegian: “Kiritimati”
- Persian: “کیریتیماتی”
- Polish: “Kiritimati”
- Portuguese: “Kiritimati”
- Portuguese: “Quiritimati”
- Romanian: “Kiritimati”
- Russian: “Остров Рождества”
- Scots: “Kiritimati”
- Shan: “ၵီႇရိတ်ႉသ်မႅတ်ႉသ်”
- Slovak: “Kiritimati”
- Slovenian: “Kiritimati”
- Spanish: “Kiritimati”
- Swedish: “Kiritimati”
- Swiss German: “Kiritimati”
- Thai: “คิริสมาส”
- Turkish: “Kiritimati”
- Ukrainian: “Кіритіматі”
- Ukrainian: “Кірітіматі”
- 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”
- Yue Chinese: “基里地馬地島”
- “Kiritimati”
- “किरितिमाती”
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