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Ma’alaea

Māʻalaea is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 310 at the 2020 census. Māʻalaea sits on the southern coast of the isthmus separating West Maui from the island’s Central Valley.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 352 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States
  • Also known as: “Ma‘alaea”, “Mā‘alaea”, “Maalaea”, “Maalaea, Hawaii”, “Maalaea, HI”, “Maʻalaea”, and “Māʻalaea, Hawaii”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maui Ocean Center.

Public aquarium
The is an aquarium and oceanography center located in Maalaea, Hawaii, on the island of . Opened on March 13, 1998, by Coral World International, the 3-acre facility is the largest living tropical reef aquarium in the Western Hemisphere.

Ma’alaea

Latitude
20.7934° or 20° 47′ 36″ north
Longitude
-156.5108° or 156° 30′ 39″ west
Population
352
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
Open location code
73G5QFVQ+9M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150917186
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5850409
Wiki­data ID
Q1902540
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Satellite Map

Discover Ma’alaea from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Ma’alaea” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Maalaea”
  • Catalan: “Maalaea”
  • Cebuano: “Mā‘alaea”
  • Chechen: “Маалея (Гавай)”
  • Chechen: “Маалея”
  • Chinese: “Maalaea”
  • Chinese: “馬阿萊亞”
  • Chinese: “马阿莱亚”
  • Dutch: “Maalaea”
  • French: “Maalaea”
  • Gilaki: “مائاليا (هاوايي)”
  • Gilaki: “مائاليا”
  • Hawaiian: “Māʻalaea”
  • Irish: “Maalaea”
  • Italian: “Maalaea”
  • Japanese: “マアラエア”
  • Korean: “마알라에아”
  • Ladin: “Maalaea”
  • Mazanderani: “ماآلیا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maalaea”
  • Newari: “मालेइया, हवाई”
  • Persian: “ماآلیا، هاوایی”
  • Persian: “ماآلیا”
  • Polish: “Maalaea”
  • Portuguese: “Maalaea”
  • Russian: “Маалаеа”
  • Serbian: “Ма’алаеа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maalaea, Hawaii”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maalaea”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماآلیا، هاوایی”
  • Spanish: “Maalaea”
  • Talysh: “Maalaea”
  • Tatar: “Маалея (Гавай)”
  • Tatar: “Маалея”
  • Ukrainian: “Маалея”
  • Urdu: “مالایا، ہوائی”
  • Urdu: “مالایا”

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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 Wikipedia page “Ma’alaea”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.