Kwajalein

Kwajalein is an atoll in the . Although a restricted US Department of Defense missile research and testing site, and not accessible to the general public, Kwajalein is home to around 1,800 Americans who live and work there.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: Pacific atoll, part of the Marshall Islands
  • Also known as: “Atoll Kwajalein”, “Atollo di Kwajalein”, “Atolon de Kwajalein”, “Atolón de Kwajalein”, “Atolon Kwajalein”, “Atolón Kwajalein”, “Kuwajleen”, “Kwajalein Atoll”, “Kwajalein-Atoll”, “Kwajalein, Marshall Islands”, “Kwajaleinatollen”, “MH-KWA”, “Атолл Кваджалейн”, “Атолл Кваджелейн”, “Атолл Меншикова”, “Атолл Меньшикова”, “Кваджелейн”, “Меншикова атолл”, “אטול קווג’לין”, “クェゼリン”, “クェゼリン島”, “クワジェリン島”, “クワジャリン”, “クワジャリン島”, “クワジャリン環礁”, “夸贾林岛”, “瓜加林”, and “瓜吉”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bucholz Army Airfield.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a United States Army airfield located on Kwajalein Atoll, .

Kwajalein

Latitude
8.7307° or 8° 43′ 51″ north
Longitude
167.7282° or 167° 43′ 42″ east
Population
10,900
Open location code
6VW9PPJH+77
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23709655
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
7303502
Wiki­data ID
Q309172
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kwajalein” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة كواجالين”
  • Asturian: “Kwajalein”
  • Basque: “Kwajalein atoloia”
  • Belarusian: “Атол Кваджалейн”
  • Belarusian: “Кваджалейн”
  • Bulgarian: “Куаджалин”
  • Catalan: “Kwajalein”
  • Cebuano: “Kwajalein”
  • Chinese: “夸贾林环礁”
  • Chinese: “瓜加林環礁”
  • Croatian: “Kwajalein”
  • Czech: “Kwajalein”
  • Danish: “Kwajalein”
  • Dutch: “Kwajalein”
  • Esperanto: “Kwajalein”
  • Finnish: “Kwajalein”
  • French: “Kwajalein”
  • Galician: “Atol Kwajalein”
  • Georgian: “კვაჯალეინი”
  • German: “Kwajalein”
  • Hebrew: “קווג’לין”
  • Hungarian: “Kwajalein-atoll”
  • Indonesian: “Atol Kwajalein”
  • Italian: “Kwajalein”
  • Japanese: “クェゼリン環礁”
  • Korean: “콰잘레인 환초”
  • Latin: “Kwajalein”
  • Lithuanian: “Kvadžaleinas”
  • Macedonian: “Кваџалејн”
  • Malay: “Atol Kwajalein”
  • Malay: “Kwajalein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kwajalein”
  • Norwegian: “Kwajalein”
  • Persian: “آب‌سنگ حلقوی کواجالین”
  • Persian: “کواجالین”
  • Polish: “Kwajalein”
  • Portuguese: “Kwajalein”
  • Romanian: “Atolul Kwajalein”
  • Romanian: “Kwajalein”
  • Russian: “Кваджалейн”
  • Slovak: “Kwajalein”
  • Slovenian: “Kwajalein”
  • Spanish: “Kwajalein”
  • Swedish: “Kwajalein”
  • Turkish: “Kwajalein Atolü”
  • Ukrainian: “Кваджалейн”
  • Urdu: “کواجالئین جزیرہ مرجانی”
  • Vietnamese: “Kwajalein”

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