Koror
Koror is the largest city in Palau. Koror was also the capital until 2006, but the hamlet of Melekeok, some 20 km away, now has that honor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Binter, Public domain.
- Type: City 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.
Belau National Museum
Museum
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
The Belau National Museum, previously Palau Museum, is a museum in Koror, Palau. It is the oldest continuously run museum in Micronesia.
National Stadium
Stadium
The Palau National Stadium is a multi-purpose sports stadium in Koror City, Palau. It is used primarily for track and field events as well as many football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 4,000.
Etpison Museum
Museum
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
The Etpison Museum is a museum in Koror City, in Koror, Palau. 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 Ngermid.
Ngermid
Village
Ngermid is a village in Koror, Palau, bordering Nikko Bay. The nearby Itungelbai river runs from its source in Ngermid through a short, narrow gorge to the sea.
Koror
- Categories: largest city and locality
- Location: Koror, Palau, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.3433° or 7° 20′ 36″ northLongitude
134.4767° or 134° 28′ 36″ eastPopulation
14,000Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)IATA airport code
RORUnited Nations Location Code
PW ROROpen location code
6QVP8FVG+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 21447751OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1559446Wikidata 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”
- Arabic: “كورور”
- Armenian: “Քորոր (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Քորոր”
- Asturian: “Koror”
- Basque: “Koror”
- Belarusian: “Корар”
- 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”
- Hungarian: “Koror”
- Indonesian: “Koror”
- Italian: “Koror”
- Japanese: “コロール”
- Kirghiz: “Корор”
- Komering: “Koror”
- Korean: “코로르 주”
- Korean: “코로르”
- Lithuanian: “Kororas”
- Malay: “Koror”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Koror”
- Moroccan Arabic: “كورور”
- Nauru: “Koror”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Koror”
- Persian: “کرر”
- Persian: “کورور سیتی”
- Polish: “Koror City”
- Polish: “Koror”
- Portuguese: “Koror”
- Romanian: “Koror (oraș)”
- Romanian: “Koror”
- Russian: “Корор”
- Silesian: “Koror City”
- Sinhala: “කොරොර් (නගරය), පලාවු”
- Sinhala: “කොරොර්, පලාවු”
- Spanish: “Koror”
- Swedish: “Koror”
- Tagalog: “lungsod ng Koror”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Koror”
- Thai: “คอรอร์”
- Ukrainian: “Корор”
- Uzbek: “Koror”
- Veps: “Koror”
- Vietnamese: “Koror”
- Waray (Philippines): “Koror”
- “Koror”
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