Marakei
Marakei is an island in Kiribati. Marakei Island is unique among the islands in the Gilbert Group for being the island with a deep blue lagoon located in the middle of it.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: island with 2,740 residents
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Marakeiatollen”, “Maraki”, “Metthew Island”, “마라케이 섬”, and “ニクナウ”
Marakei
- Category: reef island
- Location: Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
2.0108° or 2° 0′ 39″ north
Longitude
173.2764° or 173° 16′ 35″ east
Population
2,740
UN/LOCODE
KI MZK
Open location code
6VJM276G+8G
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Marakei” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Маракеи”
- Cebuano: “Marakei”
- Chinese: “馬拉凱環礁”
- Chinese: “马拉凯环礁”
- Croatian: “Marakei”
- Dutch: “Marakei”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماراكى”
- Estonian: “Marakei”
- Finnish: “Marakei”
- French: “Marakei”
- Galician: “Atol Marakei”
- German: “Marakei”
- Greek: “Μαρακέι”
- Hebrew: “מאראקיי”
- Indonesian: “Marakei”
- Italian: “Marakei”
- Japanese: “マラケイ”
- Korean: “마라케이”
- Lithuanian: “Marakei”
- Macedonian: “Маракеј”
- Persian: “ماراکی”
- Polish: “Marakei”
- Portuguese: “Marakei”
- Russian: “Маракеи”
- Spanish: “Marakei”
- Swedish: “Marakei”
- Turkish: “Marakei”
- Ukrainian: “Маракеї”
- “Marakei”
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