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Kuria

Kuria forms the central point of the chain of islands in . Being the widest island in Kiribati, this allows cooler temperature for Kuria making it a haven from hotter neighboring island.
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Kuria

Latitude
0.2334° or 0° 14′ 0″ north
Longitude
173.4178° or 173° 25′ 4″ east
Population
1,080
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
6VGM6CM9+84
Open­Street­Map ID
way 137612905
Geo­Names ID
7521594
Wiki­data ID
Q1139401
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Turkish—“Kuria” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kuria”
  • Cebuano: “Kuria (bahin nga pulo)”
  • Cebuano: “Kuria”
  • Chinese: “庫里亞島”
  • Chinese: “庫里亞環礁”
  • Croatian: “Kuria”
  • Dutch: “Kuria”
  • Esperanto: “Kuria”
  • Estonian: “Kuria”
  • Finnish: “Kuria”
  • French: “Kouria”
  • French: “Kuria”
  • Galician: “Illas Kuria”
  • Galician: “Kuria”
  • German: “Kuria-Inseln”
  • German: “Woodle’s Island”
  • Greek: “Κουρία”
  • Italian: “Kuria”
  • Japanese: “クリア島”
  • Japanese: “クリア環礁”
  • Korean: “쿠리아섬”
  • Macedonian: “Курија”
  • Persian: “کوریا (جزایر)”
  • Persian: “کوریا”
  • Polish: “Kuria”
  • Portuguese: “Kuria”
  • Russian: “Куриа”
  • Spanish: “Kuria”
  • Swedish: “Kuria, Kiribati”
  • Swedish: “Kuria”
  • Turkish: “Kuria Adası”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Kuria”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.