Koror

Koror is the largest city in . Koror was also the capital until 2006, but the hamlet of Melekeok, some 20 km away, now has that honor.
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  • Type: Town with 14,000 residents
  • Description: city and former capital of Palau
  • Also known as: “Coror”, “Corror”, “Corrora”, “Goreor”, “Goror”, “Koreor”, “Koror town”, “Koror village”, and “Korōru”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Belau National Museum and National Stadium.

Museum
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
The , previously Palau Museum, is a museum in , Palau. It is the oldest continuously run museum in Micronesia.

Stadium
The Palau is a multi-purpose sports stadium in Koror City, . It is used primarily for track and field events as well as many football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 4,000.

Museum
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The is a in Koror City, in , . The museum opened in August 1999, in a building designed and built by Shallum and Mandy Etpison. It documents the history and culture of the country of Palau.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Meyuns and Ngermid.

Village
is the second most populous city of , with a population of approximately 1,000. It is located in the , where the nation's largest city, Koror, is located.

Village
is a village in , , bordering Nikko Bay. The nearby Itungelbai river runs from its source in through a short, narrow gorge to the sea.

Koror

Latitude
7.3433° or 7° 20′ 36″ north
Longitude
134.4767° or 134° 28′ 36″ east
Population
14,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
ROR
United Nations Location Code
PW ROR
Open location code
6QVP8FVG+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21447751
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1559446
Wiki­data ID
Q527748
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Koror” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Koror”
  • Amharic: “ኮሮር”
  • Arabic: “كورور”
  • Armenian: “Քորոր (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Քորոր”
  • Asturian: “Koror”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koror”
  • Basque: “Koror”
  • Belarusian: “Корар”
  • Bengali: “কোরোর”
  • Bulgarian: “Корор”
  • Catalan: “Koror”
  • Cebuano: “Koror (kapital sa estado sa Palau)”
  • Cebuano: “Koror”
  • Chinese: “Koror”
  • Chinese: “科罗尔”
  • Chinese: “科羅”
  • Chinese: “科羅爾”
  • Czech: “Koror”
  • Danish: “Koror”
  • Dutch: “Koror”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كورور”
  • Esperanto: “Kororo”
  • Finnish: “Koror”
  • French: “Koror”
  • Georgian: “კორორი”
  • German: “Koror”
  • Guarani: “Koror”
  • Haitian: “Koro”
  • Hausa: “Koror”
  • Hindi: “कोरोर”
  • Hungarian: “Koror”
  • Indonesian: “Koror”
  • Italian: “Koror”
  • Japanese: “コロール”
  • Javanese: “Koror”
  • Kazakh: “Корор”
  • Kirghiz: “Корор”
  • Komering: “Koror”
  • Korean: “코로르 주”
  • Korean: “코로르”
  • Latvian: “Korora”
  • Lithuanian: “Kororas”
  • Malay: “Koror”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Koror”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كورور”
  • Nauru: “Koror”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Koror”
  • Oromo: “Koror”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਰੋਰ”
  • Persian: “کرر”
  • Persian: “کورور سیتی”
  • Persian: “کورور”
  • Polish: “Koror City”
  • Polish: “Koror”
  • Portuguese: “Koror”
  • Pushto: “کورور”
  • Romanian: “Koror (oraș)”
  • Romanian: “Koror”
  • Russian: “Корор”
  • Silesian: “Koror City”
  • Sinhala: “කොරොර් (නගරය), පලාවු”
  • Sinhala: “කොරොර්, පලාවු”
  • Somali: “Koror”
  • Spanish: “Koror”
  • Swahili: “Koror”
  • Swedish: “Koror”
  • Tagalog: “lungsod ng Koror”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Koror”
  • Tajik: “Корор”
  • Tatar: “Корор”
  • Thai: “คอรอร์”
  • Tumbuka: “Koror”
  • Tumbuka: “Msumba wa Koror”
  • Tumbuka: “Mzinda wa Koror”
  • Turkish: “Koror”
  • Ukrainian: “Корор”
  • Urdu: “کورور (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “کورور”
  • Uzbek: “Koror”
  • Veps: “Koror”
  • Vietnamese: “Koror”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Koror”
  • “Koror”

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