Lau Islands

Lau Islands is an archipelago of about 100 small islands in eastern . About a third of the islands are inhabited.
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Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
  • Type: archipelago
  • Description: archipelago of Fiji
  • Also known as: Eastern Archipelago”, “Eastern Group”, and “Lau Group

Lau Islands

Latitude
-18.3333° or 18° 19′ 60″ south
Longitude
-178.5° or 178° 30′ west
Open location code
52H3MG82+M2
Wiki­data ID
Q1062438
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Lau Islands” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Provincia de Lau
  • Belarusian: Астравы Лау
  • Belarusian: Лау
  • Catalan: arxipèlag de Lau
  • Catalan: illes Lau
  • Cebuano: Lau Group
  • Chinese: 劳群岛
  • Chinese: 勞群島
  • Czech: Lau
  • Czech: Souostrovi Lau
  • Czech: Souostroví Lau
  • Dutch: Lau eilanden
  • Dutch: Lau-archipel
  • Dutch: Lau-eilanden
  • Dutch: Laugroep
  • Dutch: Oostelijke Archipel
  • Esperanto: Insularo Lau
  • Esperanto: Lau Insularo
  • Fiji Hindi: Lau Group
  • Fijian: Lau Group
  • French: archipel de Lau
  • French: Archipel de Lau
  • French: archipel oriental
  • French: groupe de l’Est
  • French: groupe de Lau
  • French: Îles Lau
  • Galician: Lau
  • Georgian: ლაუს კუნძულები
  • German: Lau-Archipel
  • German: Lau-Gruppe
  • German: Lau-Inseln
  • German: Lauinseln
  • Hebrew: איי לאו
  • Hindi: पूर्व का द्वीपसमूह्
  • Hindi: लाउ द्वीपसमूह
  • Hindi: लाउ द्वीप्
  • Indonesian: Kepulauan Lau
  • Italian: Isole Lau
  • Japanese: ラウ諸島
  • Kannada: ಲಾಯು ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು
  • Korean: 라우 제도
  • Lithuanian: Lau salos
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Lau
  • Norwegian: Lau
  • Persian: جزایر لائو
  • Portuguese: Ilhas Lau
  • Portuguese: Lau
  • Russian: Лау
  • Russian: Острова Лау
  • Samoan: Lau
  • Sanskrit: लाउ द्वीप
  • Sinhala: ලාවු පළාත, ෆීජි
  • Slovenian: Lau Islands
  • Slovenian: Otoki Lau
  • Slovenian: otoška skupina Lau
  • Spanish: Archipielago de Lau
  • Spanish: Archipiélago de Lau
  • Spanish: Grupo Lau
  • Spanish: Islas Lau
  • Spanish: Lau
  • Spanish: Provincia de Lau
  • Swedish: Lau Group
  • Swedish: Lauöarna
  • Swedish: Norra Lauöarna
  • Turkish: Lau Takımadaları

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Lau Islands”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.